Verbatim: Jun. 5, 2006

"I learned some lessons about expressing myself maybe in a little more sophisticated manner."

GEORGE W. BUSH, during a press conference with visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair, when asked what missteps he most regrets over the course of the war in Iraq. The President said "tough talk"--phrases like "bring it on"--"sent the wrong signal to people"

"I do not know what we did. But we must have sinned for God to be angry like this."

JODI RIWONO, survivor of an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that struck near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta, killing thousands of people...

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