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'We are being confronted with an unfathomable crime.' GUENTHER PLATTER, Austrian Interior Minister, on the rescue of a 42-year-old woman who had been locked in a cellar and sexually abused by her father for 24 years

'They offend me, they rightly offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. And that's what I'm doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.' BARACK OBAMA, Democratic presidential hopeful, repudiating the comments of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after Wright repeated his controversial statements on racism and 9/11 during a speech at the National Press Club

'No community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity.' MANMOHAN SINGH, Indian Prime Minister, on the spreading practice of aborting female fetuses because of a preference for male children

'Get over it. It's so old by now.' ANTONIN SCALIA, Supreme Court Justice, on lingering feelings about the court's 2000 Florida recount ruling, which secured the presidential election for George W. Bush

'We really can't have a divided convention. If we do, it's going to be very hard to heal the party afterward.' HOWARD DEAN, Democratic Party chairman, saying either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama should drop out of the nomination contest after the June primaries to unify the party

'My son did say the word paparazzi the other day, and he's only 2.' GWYNETH PALTROW, calling the media attention given to her and rock-star husband Chris Martin "slightly disturbing"

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