Notebook

"[Baseball is]...an important sport in the American lifestyle and the American way of life. This is a time of unity on a number of fronts." SCOTT MCLELLAN, White House spokesman, referring to the 9/11 anniversary, after a Major League Baseball strike was averted

"He's 21 years old, and he worked as a busboy and then at Edy's ice cream, and he's supposed to be the mastermind of a jihad?" KEVIN ERNST, attorney for Farouk Ali-Haimoud, one of four Detroit-area men charged with operating a sleeper terrorist cell

"There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me." MARWAN AL-SHEHHI, 9/11 hijacker, talking to a librarian in Hamburg in the spring of 2000, according to chief German prosecutor Kay Nehm

"What we must not do in the face of a mortal threat is to give in to wishful thinking or willful blindness. We will not simply look away, hope for the best and leave the matter for some future Administration to resolve." DICK CHENEY, Vice President, making the case for an attack on Iraq

"Democracies die behind closed doors." SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, ruling that the Bush Administration must open deportation hearings of 9/11 suspects to the press and public

"Have any of the items you are traveling with been out of your immediate control since the time you packed them?" Airport question that need not be asked anymore, according to the Transportation Security Administration, which said the inquiry no longer had security value

"I think after Sept. 11, people want to feel connected, and I think my show helps you get that feeling." ASHA BLAKE, on her new TV show, Life Moments, which debuts this fall

"Whether Saddam Hussein remains or is removed from power is up to the Iraqi people." PRINCE SAUD AL-FAISAL, Saudi Foreign Minister, in an interview with the bbc after Cheney's speech

Sources: Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer, New York Times, AP (2), Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Times