Verbatim

"I, like all of you, have evolved. It is not enough to do small things."

JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic candidate for President in the 2008 election and former vice presidential nominee, on why he would raise taxes to provide health-care coverage for all low-income families

"There is no reason for the population to worry."

YEVGENY VDOVIN, acting governor of Russia's Omsk region, about oily, rotten-smelling, orange-yellow snow falling in the Siberian industrial area, which officials attributed not to pollution but to dust storms in neighboring Kazakhstan

"Forgive me, I beg you. And take this public show of my private pride giving in to your fury as an act of love. One of many."

SILVIO BERLUSCONI, former Italian Prime Minister and the country's richest man, in a public apology to his wife after she demanded one--in a letter she published in a newspaper--for flirtatious comments he reportedly made to other women

"He is completely heterosexual.That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing."

THE REV. TIM RALPH, one of four ministers who oversaw weeks of intensive counseling for disgraced evangelical leader Ted Haggard, who admitted to improprieties involving a male prostitute

"I told him I take a bath every day."

THE REV. AL SHARPTON, black activist who ran for President in 2004, on Joe Biden's calling fellow 2008 presidential hopeful Barack Obama "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Biden apologized

Sources: New York Times; ITAR-Tass; AP; Denver Post; New York Times

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