June 28 issue - "We're at war here... Somebody's going to pay." President George W. Bush, after saying there was a "minor war going on" to Vice President Dick Cheney, as quoted in a report from the 9-11 Commission
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"If she were being hit in the head with a two by four in school, would the court also say I have no right to object?" California atheist Michael Newdow, who argued before the Supreme Court that the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional. The court rejected the case, saying that under California custody law, Newdow had no right to battle the phrase on his daughter's behalf.
"It's serious, but the sky is not falling. Of course, we wish it would, in the form of rain." Herb Guenther, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, on a lingering drought in the Colorado River Basin and other portions of the West
"I am more than happy to answer every question, but I'm not going to engage in USADA's secret kangaroo court. I will answer USADA's questions in a public forum that will be open for the entire world to see, hear and evaluate." Olympic sprinting champion Marion Jones, at a San Francisco press conference, on the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into allegations that she used banned drugs
"He said they are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog, then you've lost control of them." Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, detailing how she was allegedly ordered to treat prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison by the current Iraqi prison chief, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller
"If there was one unmistakable failure, it is the failure of the headquarters at FAA." Republican commissionerJohn F. Lehman, at the 9-11 Commission's final public hearing in Washington last week. The commission's report found federal aviation administrators slow to inform military commanders about the September 11 hijackings.
"The security of our two nations [is] intertwined." Afghan President Hamid Karzai,asking Congress for a long-term commitment to rebuild his country and give private companies incentives to invest there
"I hope people won't be inebriated when they vote, but it seems like a fun way to get people involved in the voting process." Christopher Burns,cofounder of the Rochester, N.Y., Young Professionals, on a plan by local Democrats to offer free beer to those 21 and over who register to vote
"We've been so blessed with Hollywood endings that we've come to expect it." Los Angeles Lakers fan Nicholas Nicassio,of Highland Park, Calif., on his shock at the team's Game Five loss of the NBA championship to the Detroit Pistons
"I don't know what to make of it. I am just glad that no one was sitting on the couch, because they would have [been] absolutely crowned." Auckland, New Zealand, native Phil Archer,after a grapefruit-size meteorite crashed through his family's living-room ceiling and postponed their plans for Sunday breakfast
Quotation sources from top to bottom: The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Associated Press, USA Today, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Reuters, Rochester Democrat And Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Daily Telegraph
