Verbatim

"The criminal attack today is certainly the occasion to carry out the decision of the Cabinet and remove Arafat." DANNY NAVEH, Israeli Health Minister, after a weekend suicide bombing at a restaurant in Haifa that killed at least 19

"Did he rape me? No. Did he humiliate me? You bet he did." UNNAMED WOMAN, one of six women in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times to accuse Republican California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger of sexual misconduct

"I always say that wherever there is smoke, there is fire...So I want to say to you, yes, that I have behaved badly sometimes." ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, the candidate, responding to the reports of his alleged sexual misconduct

"The entire world is experiencing a Pope who is sick, who is disabled and who is dying." CHRISTOPH CARDINAL SCHOENBORN, Archbishop of Vienna, on the declining health of Pope John Paul II

"Hostility toward America has reached shocking levels." ADVISORY GROUP ON PUBLIC DIPLOMACY FOR THE ARAB AND MUSLIM WORLD, a panel appointed by the White House to review the U.S.'s image, in a newly released report

"Roses are red/Violets are blue/Oh my, lump in the bed/How I've missed you." GEORGE W. BUSH, in a poem written to his wife upon her return from a trip abroad, as read by Laura Bush at the opening of the National Book Festival

"Not everyone is Hillary Clinton. She's an intellectual machine like I've rarely met." BERNADETTE CHIRAC, First Lady of France, in an interview with a French magazine, on the role of a wife in politics

"The worst part is that consumers don't understand what on earth is going on." MICHAEL POWELL, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, on the legal moves that have delayed the do-not-call list to stop unwanted telemarketer solicitations

Sources: Agence France-Presse; Los Angeles Times; Washington Post; AP; New York Times ; AP (3)