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Half my lunch partners these days are doing, in handcuffs, the perp walk, filing for bankruptcy, or 'exploring new opportunities.'
TINA BROWN,
former Talk magazine editor, in her debut "Lunching in New York" column for the Times of London


The cost of one bullet, if the Iraqi people take it on themselves, is substantially less than that.
ARI FLEISCHER,
White House press secretary, suggesting that the assassination of Saddam Hussein would cost less than a U.S. invasion


Let me put it this way: I had only one bullet, and I used it to shoot myself in the foot.
ARI FLEISCHER,
trying to calm the media frenzy over his earlier comment


We are just small-time con artists.
LEFTERIS TERZAKIS,
head of Athens' taxi drivers' union, after agreeing to seminars in etiquette for union members ahead of the 2004 Summer Olympics


He may have been grey to the world, but he was a very exciting lover
EDWINA CURRIE,
former British M.P., writing about ex-Prime Minister John Major in her diaries


The event in my life that I'm most ashamed of
JOHN MAJOR,
describing his four-year-long extra-marital affair with Currie

Sources: Times of London, New York Times, Washington Post, Independent, Times of London (2)