Verbatim

'I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me.' HILLARY CLINTON, former Democratic presidential contender, delivering her concession speech and endorsing her rival for President

'Maybe Texas is not the place you need to consider calling home.' RICK PERRY, Texas governor, warning polygamist members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that child sex abuse will not be tolerated, despite a ruling that flds members must remain in Texas for investigation

'We no longer have a moral compass.' DARYL ROBERTS, police chief of Hartford, Conn., after security cameras captured dozens of witnesses driving past a 78-year-old hit-and-run victim without stopping to help

'We will not allow Iraq to become a platform for harming the security of Iran and neighbors.' NOURI AL-MALIKI, Iraq's Prime Minister, assuring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that American bases in Iraq will not be used to attack his country

'The House is not in order.' DENNIS KUCINICH, Ohio Democrat, introducing articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kucinich failed to impeach Dick Cheney in 2007

'Zimbabwe has plunged into horrendous violence while you have been mediating. With respect, if we continue like this, there will be no country left.' MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, opposition leader, in a recently published letter to Zimbabwe's appointed mediator, South African President Thabo Mbeki, accusing him of favoring strongman Robert Mugabe. Mbeki's spokesman has called the letter a fabrication

'He didn't like the nose.' JANET HAMLIN, courtroom sketch artist, on the reaction of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed when he saw a sketch of himself at his trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Sources: Fox News; AP (2); New York Times; C-SPAN; New York Times; Reuters

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