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"After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad." GEORGE W. BUSH, on Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein

"Any aggression on Iraq will not be a picnic; instead, it will be a fierce fight where America will suffer losses that have not been sustained for decades." TARIQ AZIZ, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, as Iraq rejected a proposed U.N. resolution for new weapons-inspection rules

"It's a lot easier to complete a maze if you start at the end." DALE WATSON, retiring FBI counterterrorism chief, defending the agency for its intelligence failures

"I always see two Jewish communities in America. One of deep intellect and one of shallow, superficial intellect." DICK ARMEY, House Republican leader, meeting with Jewish leaders in Florida

"We have accidents and drunk driving and shoplifting and a drug problem like everyone else, but the senseless killing of five innocent people--that's kind of hard to explain." DON MAUK, Chamber of Commerce president in Norfolk, Neb., a town of 25,000 where five people were shot to death in a bank holdup

Sources: CNN; AP; Los Angeles Times; Bradenton Herald; New York Times