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"I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security."

FORMER PRESIDENT GERALD FORD, in a 2004 embargoed interview with Bob Woodward that became public posthumously, expressing skepticism about the U.S. bringing democracy to Iraq

"They will call Saddam a martyr, not because they love him, but for their own gain."

ALA'A AL-SAYID, a Shi'ite government worker in Iraq, about Iraqi insurgents, who he fears will use the execution of former dictator Saddam Hussein to inflame further violence

"This is clearly a dirty trick."

SUNNY MINDEL, Rudy Giuliani's spokeswoman, on the leaking of a document detailing the former New York City mayor's presidential campaign strategy to the New York Daily News

"We're being very ruthless. A book is not forever."

SAM CLAY, director of the library system in Fairfax County, Va., about the threat to remove thousands of books from its 21 libraries, including classics like Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, because they haven't been checked out in two years

"I've always thought that if there's ever an occasion for a song to be played on my behalf, I wanted it to be Frank Sinatra singing My Way."

BOB KNIGHT, cantankerous Texas Tech coach, who set the record for most victories in Division I men's basketball when his Red Raiders beat New Mexico, 70-68

Sources: Washington Post; USA Today; AP; Washington Post; AP

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