Verbatim

"All options are on the table, but I believe we can solve this diplomatically."
GEORGE W. BUSH,
U.S. President, on the nuclear crisis with North Korea

"The whole of Korea will be reduced to ashes."
COMMITTEE FOR THE PEACEFUL REUNIFICATION OF THE FATHERLAND,
a North Korean governmental organization, on the consequences of a U.S. military strike on the country's nuclear reactor facilities

"Today Iraq still poses a threat and Iraq still remains in material breach."
COLIN POWELL,
U.S. Secretary of State, in a presentation on Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction to the U.N. Security Council

"This was a typical American show complete with stunts and special effects."
AMIR AL-SAADI,
Iraqi general, denying Powell's allegations

"I am 100% sure, well, 99%, because only God can be 100% sure, that he is not in Pakistan."
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF,
Pakistani President, revising his earlier claims that Osama bin Laden is dead

"I cussed at a lady... My daughter always said I had a potty mouth."
COURTNEY LOVE,
rock star turned actress, after being arrested for abusive behavior on a Virgin Airlines flight to London that had been at the invitation of founder Richard Branson