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"'Liza, stop it, stop it!'"
David Gest,
husband of actress Liza Minelli, recounting how he tried to fend off allegedly drunken beatings by his wife, according to his $10 million civil suit. Minelli, who denies the allegations, has filed for divorce

"It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog."
Donald Rumsfeld,
U.S. Secretary of Defense, in a memo to top-ranking defense officials leaked to USA Today

"The reaction of the world shows that [Jews] do control the world."
Mahathir Mohamad,
departing Malaysian Prime Minister, on Western outrage over his recent comments about the global power wielded by Jews

"The way to live is to kill because you don't have to worry about anybody who's dead."
William Doyle,
former sergeant in the U.S. Army's élite "Tiger Force," which, according to a Toledo Blade investigation, killed more than 100 civilians in a seven-month Vietnam War rampage

"How I wish I could deny it."
Heraclio (Rocky) Nazareno,
demoted Philippine press undersecretary, apologizing for drunkenly urinating near an emergency exit on President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's chartered airplane