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"We don't start a job that we can't finish... That's the American way." PAUL WOLFOWITZ, Deputy Defense Secretary, on the White House's request for $87 billion in military and reconstruction funds for Iraq and Afghanistan next year

"Congress is not an ATM." ROBERT BYRD, Democratic Senator from West Virginia, to Paul Wolfowitz, on the White House's postwar funding request

"Pounce on the Americans just as lions pounce their prey, and bury them in Iraq's graveyard." AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI, Osama bin Laden's deputy, in a new alleged al-Qaeda tape broadcast by al-Jazeera satellite-television network

"Howard Dean's statements break a 50-year record in which Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, members of Congress of both parties have supported our relationship with Israel." JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, responding at a candidates' debate to a comment from fellow candidate Howard Dean that "it's not our place to take sides" in the Middle East

"This is my homeland...no one can kick me out." YASSER ARAFAT, Palestinian leader, after the Israeli security cabinet announced its decision to "remove" him

"I want to tell my dad that I care about him much more than I did before. I care about him a gazillion times more." CORBIN MAYO, 13, whose father was killed on Sept. 11, 2001, at a commemoration at ground zero in which he was one of 200 children who recited the names of the victims

"When we found ourselves seriously contemplating hiring three separate 'decoy brides' at three different locations, we realized that something was awry." BEN AFFLECK and JENNIFER LOPEZ, actors, in a joint statement postponing their wedding after it stirred up a media frenzy

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