Verbatim

"I think I'd just commit suicide."

JOHN MCCAIN, Republican Senator from Arizona, joking about what he would do if Democrats gain control of the House and Senate. "I don't want to face that eventuality," he added, "because I don't think it's going to happen."

"Why does he want to destroy me in my old age?"

ANTHONY MERCIECA, Catholic priest, 72, who last week admitted that he had an intimate two-year relationship with Mark Foley in the 1960s when the ex-Congressman was an altar boy in Florida

"They've called me Aunt Jemima, a sellout, a traitor to my race."

FRANCES RICE, chairwoman of the National Black Republican Association, on the negative response from blacks to a radio ad the group has aired claiming that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican

"Men should hold on to their position. Otherwise we are going to have matriarchy."

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, ex-Soviet President, at the Women's World Awards, which honor women who further gender equality

"Rock music has come to a standstill. It's not going forward anymore. It only bores me."

STING, singer, on why his new album Songs from the Labyrinth features only music by 16th century composer John Dowland

"Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never afraid of an animal."

BINDI IRWIN, 8-year-old daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, on handling animals for her new show Bindi, the Jungle Girl, which premieres on the Discovery Kids network in early 2007

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