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'We are also human beings, and sometimes we catch a cold.' MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, on rumors that he is seriously ill

'It's making use of an alternative energy that's God-given.' STEPHEN SCOTT, senior fellow at Elizabethtown College, in Pennsylvania, on the decision by some Amish communities to begin using solar energy

'There were certainly war crimes committed, certainly not by us.' MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, Georgia's President, denying that his armed forces targeted civilians during their August attempt to reclaim the South Ossetia region

'The Americans are not interested in our bad guys.' SENIOR PAKISTANI OFFICIAL, saying U.S. operations are targeting...

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