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.
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.