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"Those who bloodied this holy day and massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds. They will be damned until eternity." RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Prime Minister of Turkey, condemning the bombings of the British consulate and a British bank in Istanbul that killed 29 people

"Order will be restored, and the criminals will be punished." EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, President of Georgia, after protesters stormed the former Soviet republic's parliament and forced him to flee the hall in what he later described as a coup d'etat

"He's probably the least dangerous person on the planet." BARRY LEVINE, attorney for John Hinckley Jr., arguing why Hinckley, who has lived in a psychiatric hospital since attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, should be allowed unsupervised visits with his parents

"If I was like a person that just quit surfing after this, I wouldn't be a real surfer." BETHANY HAMILTON, 13, who while surfing in Kilauea, Hawaii, last month had her arm bitten off by a shark

"As terrible as 9/11 was, it didn't repeal the Constitution." ROSEMARY POOLER, federal appeals-court judge, considering the case of alleged "dirty bomber" and U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, whom the President designated an "enemy combatant," meaning he could be detained indefinitely and denied access to his lawyer

"I am no longer trying to live my life by making other people happy." RUSH LIMBAUGH, radio talk-show host, on his first day back on the air after five weeks in a rehabilitation clinic for his addiction to prescription painkillers

"The last noted American to visit London stayed in a glass box dangling over the Thames. A few might have been happy to provide similar arrangements for me." PRESIDENT BUSH, who was greeted with protests during his trip to London, referring to a stunt performed by magician David Blaine

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