Verbatim: Dec. 8, 2003

"I slipped on a baseball cap, pulled 'er down, as did Condi. We looked like a normal couple." GEORGE W. BUSH, on his secrecy-laden trip to Baghdad to have Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops

"I didn't have as much practice skiing as the Governor did. He was out there skiing when I was recovering from my wounds in Vietnam." WESLEY CLARK, presidential candidate, on rival Howard Dean's skiing activities after Dean got a medical deferment from the draft

"J.F.K. is my political idol." MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI, U.S.-educated opposition leader in Georgia who helped bring on the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze and...

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