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"Try not to believe that myself or President Bush are sort of badly motivated people who want to do the worst."
Tony Blair,
British Prime Minister, urging Britons to behave this week during the U.S. President's visit to London, which is expected to prompt large protests

"Islam is our raison d'être."
Abdul Hadi Awang,
president of the opposition Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, calling for the nationwide implementation of Shari'a law

"That's not me on the TV. It's something I want to put behind me... I don't want to be no movie star."
Jessica Lynch,
U.S. soldier, about a TV movie describing her rescue in Iraq in April, that was watched by nearly 15 million Americans last week

"It is not an enjoyment... it is actually repulsive."
Chief superintendent Tang How-kong,
Hong Kong police public-relations head, revealing that Hong Kong vice officers are permitted to receive "masturbation" services to gather evidence against prostitutes

"We believe we must have been cursed... When we have made the apology we will be clean again."
Filimoni Nawawabalevu,
Fiji village chief, before a tribal ceremony to assuage his village's guilt for consuming an English missionary in 1867. According to a contemporary report, the villagers ate all parts of the Englishman "but his boots"

"The censorship board isn't authorized to decide what is the truth and what is a lie."
Israeli supreme court,
overruling the national Film Ratings Board's proscription of a documentary about last year's bloody incursion into the Jenin refugee camp. The board had described the film as "distorted"