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"[He] was like a blind man in a room full of deaf people."
Paul O'Neill, former Treasury Secretary, describing in his new book the lack of give-and-take in President George W. Bush's Cabinet meetings

"We will start a patriotic health campaign to kill rats and cockroaches in order to give every place a thorough cleaning for the Lunar New Year."
Feng Liuxiang, deputy director of the Guangdong health bureau, after a second person in the southern Chinese province was suspected of coming down with SARS

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"It looks like mud, but it can't be mud."
Dr. Steven W. Squyres, scientist with NASA's Spirit mission to Mars, after viewing pictures of the planet's surface. The mission's rovers will scour the surface for evidence of water

"I believe that the reason I smoke and drink and my wife is overweight is because we watched TV every day for the last four years. "
Timothy Dumouchel, a Wisconsin man who threatened to sue a cable company for providing free service for four years after he requested that it be canceled. (Dumouchel decided not to sue)

"If they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that's fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did."
Robert Duvall, U.S. actor, in a TV interview, on why he didn't resume his role as Tom Hagen in The Godfather III