Verbatim

"It's important, I think, for this institution to stand up for its rights."

CHRISTOPHER DODD, Democratic Senator from Connecticut, after Senate Democrats succeeded in delaying a vote on the nomination of John Bolton for U.N. ambassador

"It lasted about a day and a half."

MITCH MCCONNELL, Senate Republican whip, referring to the promise of better relations between the parties after a truce that preserved the filibuster but allowed a vote on three of the President's judicial nominees

"They won't get any help from us--none. We busted our hump to get a President who would appoint judges who would be more just. Republican Senators betrayed us."

NORMAN PAWLEWSKI, of the Iowa Christian Coalition, on the seven Republicans who helped negotiate the compromise

"Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time."

IRENE KHAN, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, whose group issued a report castigating the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay

"It would open a period of divisions, of doubts, of uncertainties."

JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, warning French voters of the impact of rejecting the European Union constitution

"I'm stoked because no one's really even seen Bo yet."

BO BICE, who came in second in the fourth American Idol contest, behind country singer Carrie Underwood

"The defense rests."

THOMAS MESEREAU, defense attorney for Michael Jackson, surprising court watchers by closing his case just minutes after the prosecution showed jurors an hour-long videotape of the accuser's initial interview with police over the child-molestation allegations

"I want to do things that conform to my time frame, not someone else's." MATTHEW KHALIL, senior at UCLA, who says he goes to the movies about once a month but, like many other Americans, prefers to watch DVDs at home

Sources: New York Times (2); AP (3); MTV; Los Angeles Times; New York Times