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"There will be no time for movies."
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Governor-elect of California, on his new job

"I have no idea whether we'll find out who the leaker is."
George W. Bush,
U.S. President, after the White House staff was asked to hand over documents related to the leak of a CIA agent's name

"We may have started later than Russia or the U.S., but it's amazing how fast we've been able to do this."
Xie Guangxuan,
director of the mainland's China Rocket Design Department, on the manned space mission scheduled for Oct. 15

"Instead of losing thousands of lives, we might lose tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of lives in a single day of war."
Vice President Dick Cheney,
defending the war in Iraq as a crucial step in preventing future terrorist attacks

"You cannot go around sodomizing people."
Mahathir Mohamad,
departing Malaysian Prime Minister, on former deputy Anwar Ibrahim who is in jail for sodomy and corruption