Verbatim

"I learned some lessons about expressing myself maybe in a little more sophisticated manner."

GEORGE W. BUSH, during a press conference with visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair, when asked what missteps he most regrets over the course of the war in Iraq. The President said "tough talk"--phrases like "bring it on"--"sent the wrong signal to people"

"I do not know what we did. But we must have sinned for God to be angry like this."

JODI RIWONO, survivor of an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that struck near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, killing thousands of people and flattening entire villages

"The term civil war does not exist in our dictionary."

ISMAIL HANIYEH, Palestinian Prime Minister, urging restraint in a power struggle between his Hamas party and the rival Fatah bloc of President Mahmoud Abbas--who said he would call a referendum on a proposal for peace with Israel if Hamas, which refuses to recognize the Jewish state, does not accept the plan within 10 days

"I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers, and I never assigned brother Zacarias to be with them in that mission."

OSAMA BIN LADEN, on an unauthenticated videotape, denying that self-confessed terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui had a role in the 9/11 plot

"I saw my people and my ancestors here in the cactus ... I was moved, and I associated very strongly with the brown-skinned people here."

JOAN BAEZ, folk singer with Hispanic roots, from a makeshift treehouse in a 50-ft. walnut, where she and two other activists camped out to protest the planned sale to developers of a community garden used by Latino immigrants in South Los Angeles

"There are some mares there, and he's extremely interested in the mares."

DEAN RICHARDSON, veterinarian, on Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro's recuperation at a Pennsylvania animal hospital after breaking his leg in the Preakness

"Probably not. I hate that guy."

TYLER SNYDER, Oakland A's fan who caught the ball Barry Bonds hit for his 714th home run--to tie Babe Ruth at No. 2 on the all-time list--when asked if he would give the ball to the San Francisco slugger

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Sources: White House; AFP; AP (2); Los Angeles Times; ABC; Reuters