Verbatim: Dec. 1, 2003

"Those who bloodied this holy day and massacred innocent people will account for it in both worlds. They will be damned until eternity." RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, Prime Minister of Turkey, condemning the bombings of the British consulate and a British bank in Istanbul that killed 29 people

"Order will be restored, and the criminals will be punished." EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, President of Georgia, after protesters stormed the former Soviet republic's parliament and forced him to flee the hall in what he later described as a coup d'etat

"He's probably the least dangerous person on the planet." BARRY LEVINE, attorney for John Hinckley...

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