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"We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al-Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States." PRELIMINARY REPORT of the commission investigating 9/11

"The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al-Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda." PRESIDENT BUSH, responding to the commission's report at a press conference

"Because of President Bush's leadership, an enemy of all Jews and an enemy of Israel was finally vanquished." NOAM NEUSNER, White House liaison, in an e-mail to Jewish community leaders, promoting a speech delivered by Bush in which he declared the world safer since Saddam Hussein's fall from power

"We will counsel Catholic public officials that their acting consistently to support abortion on demand risks making them cooperators in evil in a public manner." U.S. CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS, in a statement that allows individual bishops to deny Communion to politicians who support abortion

"I'm just a golfer, man. I chase a little white ball around and work on my farmer tan." TIGER WOODS, after someone suggested that he was the biggest celebrity in the Hamptons, the site of last week's U.S. Open

"I'm cheeky, I'm sexy, whatever. You know, I've got a lot of life inside." TERESA HEINZ KERRY, during an interview with CBS, when asked for the three words that would describe her

"I said, 'Tom, I don't want to horn in on your party, but is there any room for me to direct this thing?'" STEVEN SPIELBERG, film director, on what it was like to work with Tom Hanks, star of Spielberg's new movie, The Terminal

Sources: New York Times; Reuters; TIME reporting; U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; AP; New York Post; AP