Verbatim

"Have the confidence to overcome the disease, for you will have love and care from the entire society."
Wen Jiabao,
China's Premier, to AIDS patients during an unprecedented nationally televised visit to a Beijing hospital on World AIDS Day

"The President blinked."
Leo W. Gerard,
head of the United Steelworkers of America, comparing the Bush Administration's backdown on tariffs on imported steel to getting bluffed at "guts poker"

"Let them remove their 700,000, and we will remove our 50,000 ... Let's start from tomorrow."
Pervez Musharraf,
Pakistan's President, on the face-off between Indian and Pakistani troops at the disputed Kashmir border

"Israeli intelligence was a full partner ... in developing a false picture of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capability."
General Shlomo Brom,
retired Israeli military-intelligence officer

"Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians."
Navanethem Pillay,
presiding judge of a U.N. criminal tribunal, convicting Ferdinand Nahimana of using a Rwandan radio station to incite the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority

"A mia noi [mistress] is an individual's right."
Thirachai Sirikhan,
M.P. from Thailand's ruling Thai Rak Thai party, panning a proposal to allow only monogamous candidates to run in the next general election

"She picks up a Bugatti's momentum. You want her more at a Volkswagen's steady trot."
Aniruddha Bahal,
Indian author, from a segment in his novel Bunker 13, which was given the London-based Literary Review's annual "Bad Sex in Fiction" award