Verbatim

"I don't need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Constitution than am I." ARLEN SPECTER, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, to Russell Feingold after the Wisconsin Senator vocally opposed the committee's approval of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage

"Soldiers on the border? That won't stop me. I'll swim the river and jump the wall. I'm going to arrive in the United States." ANTONIO AURIEL, Honduran migrant, on the Bush Administration's plan to send National Guard troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border

"Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, rejecting an E.U. offer to give his country nonmilitary nuclear technology, including a reactor, in exchange for halting uranium enrichment

"If the American people got any whiff that we thought having a national motto or a national anthem ... or a national language was unimportant to us, I think they would throw us all out." LAMAR ALEXANDER, Republican Senator from Tennessee, in support of legislation to make English the U.S. national language

"It's my Ed Muskie moment." TONY SNOW, new White House press secretary and colon-cancer survivor, after tearing up in his first televised briefing when asked about his LIVESTRONG bracelet. Senator Muskie famously became emotional in front of REPORTERS during his 1972 presidential campaign

"My parents raised me to be a good sport, but I don't want to share the world record." JUSTIN GATLIN, U.S. track star and world's fastest man for five days until he learned that because of a timing error, he had actually tied, not broken, Jamaican rival Asafa Powell's 100-m record of 9.77 sec.

"Me and Sonny are BFF now, because we did the Cha Cha Slide together." MAGGIE MCDARIS, junior at Atlanta's Brookwood High School, on her new Best Friend Forever and dance partner, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, who threw an afterparty for Brookwood's prom to promote student safety

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Sources: AP (3); Congressional Record; New York Times; AP; Atlanta Journal-Constitution