Verbatim

'I am ... offering to take Mr. Jamous' place, to exchange my freedom for his.'

MIA FARROW, volunteering to trade places with Darfur rebel Suleiman Jamous, who has been under virtual arrest at a U.N. hospital for more than 13 months. The Sudanese government has threatened to arrest Jamous if he leaves the building's confines

'We thought we had done all we could.'

DAN DORGAN, a Minnesota bridge engineer, on the state's strategy of making patchwork fixes on the Interstate 35W bridge, which collapsed Aug. 1. The bridge was rated "structurally deficient" 17 years ago

'This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just plant flags and say, "We're claiming this territory."'

PETER MACKAY, Canada's Foreign Minister (at left), on a Russian crew's planting a flag on the seabed at the North Pole in order to lay claim to any mineral deposits that might be buried below

'We would not like American candidates to fight their elections ... at our expense.'

KHUSHEED KASURI, Foreign Minister of Pakistan, on U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama's statement that, if elected, he might order strikes against terrorists hiding in the Islamic country

'They really have no idea where they are. It likely means that the United States is unintentionally providing weapons to bad actors.'

RACHEL STOHL, a senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information, responding to a new government report revealing that the Pentagon lost track of about 190,000 pistols and AK-47 assault rifles given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005

'I'm aware not everybody says nice things about me.'

HILLARY CLINTON, joking about her reputation in the blogosphere at the YearlyKos political convention held in Chicago

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