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"Tears don't protect anyone."

SHEIK HASSAN NASRALLAH, Hizballah leader, mocking Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who wept publicly during the recent conflict with Israel. Nasrallah said that his militant group would not disarm and that it had actually increased its arsenal since July

"We've made no judgment of any kind at this point about any aspect of policy with regard to Iraq."

LEE HAMILTON, co-chairman of the congressionally commissioned Iraq Study Group, at a press conference called by the panel to provide a progress report on its work

"Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age."

PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, recounting the post-9/11 threat to his intelligence director by Richard Armitage, then U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, of consequences if Pakistan did not cooperate in the war on terrorism. Armitage disputed the language and said, "There was no military threat"

"We apologize for the inconvenience."

THAI ARMY OFFICIAL, reading a message on Thai television to request the people's "cooperation" after the military ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless coup

"For the record, I love puppies."

MICHAEL STEELE, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland and G.O.P. candidate for the U.S. Senate, in a campaign ad in which he predicts he will be accused of all kinds of things, including disliking puppies

"Its fur was too thick."

ZHANG XINYAN, Chinese construction worker who drunkenly climbed into a panda's enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, tried to hug the creature, was bitten and then tried to bite the panda back

Sources: Associated Press; Washington Post; CBS News; BBC; Baltimore Sun; UPI

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