Verbatim

"Tomorrow is zero hour." MESSAGE IN ARABIC, reportedly intercepted by the National Security Agency Sept. 10 but not translated until Sept. 12

"The United States is responsible for political, economic and military power, and Germany takes care of soccer." SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, Munich daily newspaper, in an editorial about a soccer match between the two countries headlined WHY AMERICA MUST LOSE. America lost

"We sell seats, and if you consume more than one seat, you have to buy more than one seat." BETH HARBIN, a Southwest Airlines spokeswoman, defending a controversial policy to charge large passengers for two seats

"After I get a good run in, I even like the press corps a lot better." PRESIDENT BUSH, referring to his habit of running seven-minute miles, in a speech urging Americans to exercise more frequently

"The last time I cooperated with the Washington Post ... was in 1952, when I was a paper boy delivering the damn thing in northwest Washington." PATRICK BUCHANAN, on the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, debunking speculation that he was Deep Throat

Sources: Washington Post; AP (3); National Journal