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'I just think it's time.'

KARL ROVE, on his decision to step down as President Bush's senior political adviser at the end of August

'We're still playing around with the question, Is he black enough? Stop that nonsense.'

MICHELLE OBAMA, wife of presidential hopeful Barack Obama, on her husband's biracial credentials, at a predominantly black Women for Obama event on Chicago's South Side

'How many dead Americans is Saddam worth?'

DICK CHENEY, in a recently surfaced 1994 video clip in which he theorized that trying to take over Iraq would lead to a "quagmire"

'We must learn to be good neighbors. And I'm optimistic. People cannot be foolish forever.'

I.A. REHMAN, a Pakistani human-rights activist, on the relations between India and Pakistan as his country celebrates its 60th year of independence

'Nobody in Europe likes England. England invented the sport but has never made any impact on world football.'

JACK WARNER, vice president of FIFA, soccer's international governing body, stating that he will block an English bid to host the 2018 World Cup

'This is a catastrophe that cannot be described in words.'

DURAID KASHMOULA, Governor of Nineveh province, Iraq, where the death toll from Aug. 14 bombings may exceed 300--making it the deadliest terrorist attack since the fall of Saddam Hussein

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