THIS WEEK THEY SAID

It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it

It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.- Democratic party nominee Barack Obama comes out swinging against his Republican rival as the US presidential race moves up a gear.

In international relations, you cannot have one rule for some and another rule for others.- Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on recognising the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions, maintaining the West set a precedent by treating Kosovo the same way.

I'm panicking. I keep thinking, "Did the Corps fix the levees?" "Is my house going to flood again?"- New Orleans resident Evelyn Fuselier, as the city braces for Tropical Storm Gustav.

I remember all those years ago watching [ Michael] Carruth in his Olympic final taking the gold and I really thought in my heart of hearts I had it in me to go out and do the same, but I just fell short.- Olympic silver medallist Ken Egan returns home.

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This really is a catastrophe. People are being killed while the world just watches.- Abdel Wahed Mohammed Al-Nur of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army says Sudanese government troops are killing refugees with impunity.

Unless one is willing to compromise one's beliefs by agreeing to a religious service, it is impossible to be buried.- British journalist Roy Greenslade, commenting that he could not bury his mother in Donegal because she was an atheist.