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"What I did was a matter of record, but what I want is the whole record out." Bill Clinton, on whether his presidential library will educate visitors about his impeachment
"I am a member of Al Qaeda." Zacarias Moussaoui, during a guilty plea before Judge Leonie Brinkema, who said that she would not accept his plea until he had considered it for a week
"This is an industry that is high profit, and knows about [the Americans with Disabilities Act] and is ignoring it." Anthony Brady Jr., attorney for Edward Law, a quadriplegic man who has sued a West Palm Beach, Fla., strip club for inadequate wheelchair access to its lap-dance chambers
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"I called him 'Lucky' because I thought I got him out of there just in time." Sherry Scott, a Liberty, Mo., woman, on rescuing a 7-week-old kitten after a group of her neighbors attempted to grill it alive on a barbecue
"You can get rid of Harvey Pitt tomorrow, and you're still going to have the problem." Rep. Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, on why firing the current chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission for previous ties to corporate businesses will not stop the current financial crisis
"[The money was spent] on lap dancing and otherentertainment." Rep. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, explaining before a House subcommittee the $38,000 bill discovered by the General Accounting Office during a probe of official U.S. Army charge cards
"And then when I get out, I will grab a sword like Maximus Meridius Demidius and as a gladiator I will stab people in the crotch." Rep. James Traficant, an Ohio Democrat facing expulsion from Congress, referring to Russell Crowe's character from the hit film "Gladiator," on what his actions would be if he is incarcerated and then escapes
"It used to be the men who did the protesting... Now it is the women who have taken action. They cannot be touched." Dennis Ojogor, resident of the Niger River Delta, on a group of hundreds of local women who, in protest of the poverty in their oil-rich area, held captive workers at a nearby ChevronTexaco terminal by threatening to remove their clothes, a practice which in Nigerian culture shames men into seeing the error of their ways
"I would define it as a betrayal of state security." A spokesman for Israeli police in response to charges that a group of six Israeli settlers, five of them soldiers, sold thousands of rounds of stolen Army ammunition to Palestinian militants
CORRECTION We attributed a July 29 perspectives quote to Rep. Charles Grassley of Iowa. He is, in fact, a senator.
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