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'This is about the best he can do. This is a man on the run, from a cave, who's virtually impotent other than these tapes.'
FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND, White House aide, downplaying the influence of Osama bin Laden just after he released a video in which he ridicules President Bush

'We too as a society have failed in the educations of these youths.'
EHUD OLMERT, Israeli Prime Minister, after the arrest of eight young neo-Nazis for attacking Jews and foreign workers and announcing their allegiance to Adolf Hitler...

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