Verbatim

"I call on all Iraqis--Arabs and Kurds--to forgive, reconcile and make up."

SADDAM HUSSEIN, former Iraqi dictator, two days after being sentenced to death by hanging for war crimes against Kurds in the 1980s

"I love doing sequels."

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Republican Governor of California, after winning a second term by a landslide

"Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?"

CHARLES RANGEL, Democratic Congressman from New York who is likely to be the next House Ways and Means Committee chairman, on his plan to redirect funds to his home state to account for the disproportionately high tax revenue collected there by the U.S. government

"I got started late."

WARREN BUFFETT, businessman, philanthropist and second richest man in the U.S., on buying his first shares of stock at age 11

"While it's great to be an American, and I'm proud to be an American, yadda-yadda-yadda, and I appreciate all the rituals, I'm done."

JASON BALL, student-trustee at California's Orange Coast College, who backed a successful motion to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from student-government meetings because it is "divisive," encourages nationalism and offends atheists

"It's a multinational right-wing company, mass marketing Brooklyn attitude with obsolete ethnic stereotypes, not to mention flimsy crusts."

MARTY MARKOWITZ, Brooklyn borough president, on a Domino's ad campaign for its new Brooklyn Style Pizza

Sources: Washington Post; Los Angeles Times; New York Times; CNBC; Orange County Register; New York Times

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