Verbatim

"March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy." JOSE MARIA AZNAR, Prime Minister of Spain, on the train bombings that killed more than 200 people

"Everybody has things that they probably should not have from the World Trade Center site." SALLY REGENHARD, whose fire-fighter son died in one of the towers, on the Justice Department investigation that criticized FBI agents for taking souvenirs from the site and found that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had kept an item from the Pentagon attack

"If there are areas where I thought someone said something they shouldn't say, I talked to them about it." GEORGE TENET, CIA chief, asked whether he confronted Administration officials who made misleading public statements regarding U.S. intelligence on Iraq

"Nobody's watching the clock." SCOTT MCCLELLAN, White House spokesman, backing off from an earlier assertion that President Bush would spend only one hour being interviewed by the commission investigating Sept. 11

"We might have seen the end of the beginning." ANTON KOEKEMOER, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of distant galaxies that may have been born shortly after the Big Bang

"Let's be clear. We've always had gay bishops. All I'm doing is being honest about it." V. GENE ROBINSON, during an investiture ceremony in which he became the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop

"Every one of us has an interest in making sure we do not turn on its head the fundamental precept that people are innocent until proven guilty." DONALD FEHR, head of the baseball players' union, in an appearance before the U.S. Senate, resisting calls to toughen the monitoring of steroid use among players

"That's cool ... but I don't know who Cary Grant is." FRANKIE MUNIZ, 18, TV actor, after being told that a critic had described him as the "Cary Grant of kid stars"

Sources: AP (2); New York Times (3); AP (2); Reuters