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"The Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, in a speech at Westminster College in Missouri, criticizing Democratic candidate John Kerry

"The Republicans have spent $60 million trying to attack me, and this comes from a President and a Republican Party that can't even answer whether or not he showed up for duty in the National Guard." JOHN KERRY, rebutting Republican attacks that questioned his record on defense

"The board this week has demonstrated that this is truly a 'do-nothing Eisner board.'" ROY E. DISNEY AND STANLEY P. GOLD, former Disney board members, renewing their criticism of CEO Michael Eisner, shortly after Comcast dropped its $54.1 billion bid to take over the company

"A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half-hour." THE GOOGLE "OWNER'S MANUAL," a statement letter offered by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to potential investors, in advance of the company's initial public offering of stock

"Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the U.S. in Iraq." SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, explaining why the company pulled from its eight ABC-TV stations an edition of Nightline in which anchor Ted Koppel read aloud the names of all the U.S. service members killed in action in Iraq

"My father makes a percentage off of me, so he had no problem with it." JESSICA SIMPSON, pop star, when asked what her father, a Baptist minister, had to say about her new line of "kissable" body-care products

Sources: AP; New York Times; New York Post; New York Times; AFP; New York Times