Verbatim

"The war has not ended." LIEUT. GENERAL DAVID MCKIERNAN, commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, after a string of attacks on soldiers there last week

"You may not like the word, but what's happening is occupation." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, using a controversial term to describe Israel's presence in the West Bank and Gaza. He later said he meant it as a reference to the Palestinian people, not the disputed territories

"No family should ever have to learn the autopsy results of somebody they love on national TV." KIM PETERSEN, spokeswoman for Laci Peterson's family, after it was reported that the victim's unborn son had a cut across his shoulders and plastic tape around his neck

"We thought it was all over. This virus gives no slack." DONALD LOW, chief of microbiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, after the city suffered a new outbreak of SARS

"Sitting around in a big base camp and knocking back cans of beer--I don't particularly regard as mountaineering." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, who with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, 50 years ago was the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, on the upsurge in amateur climbers since then

"Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants." RICK BRAGG, New York Times reporter, defending himself after he was suspended for using uncredited material from an intern in a story about Florida oystermen. His comment infuriated some newsroom colleagues, and he later resigned

"The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime." BILL CLINTON, former President, arguing for a change in the rules on term limits, a change that might allow him to run again

"It's home. It's home." WHITNEY HOUSTON, singer, to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during a visit to Israel with her husband Bobby Brown

Sources: National Public Radio; Los Angeles Times; AP; New York Times; CNN; Washington Post; CNN; AP