Verbatim: Aug. 2, 2004

"Time is not on our side." THOMAS KEAN, chairman of the 9/11 commission, urging adoption of its recommendations to make changes in U.S. intelligence gathering to avert another terrorist attack

"I know plenty of politicians assume they have your vote. But do they earn it?" PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, speaking to the National Urban League, asking black voters to reconsider their long allegiance to the Democratic Party

"This evidence is relevant." JUDGE TERRY RUCKRIEGLE, ruling in the Kobe Bryant case that evidence regarding his accuser's sexual activities around the time of the alleged rape will be allowed

"If they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men." ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Republican Governor of California, complaining about Democrats who he claims are delaying his budget proposal, in a joking reference to the bodybuilders on Saturday Night Live

"He is definitely an extremely busy man, but he still finds plenty of time to devote to us." BARBARA and JENNA BUSH, the President's twin daughters, in an online chat organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign

"I think I'll write a book ... It could be helpful to other people--just about what lawyer to choose, how to behave, how to attend an interview." MARTHA STEWART, to interviewer Larry King, on her future plans after being sentenced to five months in prison

"A society of different lifestyles spawned a group of young people who were brought up without parental discipline, without proper role models and without any sense of responsibility to or for others." BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR, criticizing the culture of the Swinging '60s

"Will it never end?" ALEX TREBEK, host of TV's Jeopardy!, on bionic contestant Ken Jennings' record 38-show winning streak

Sources: AP; New York Times (4); AP; Guardian; Washington Post