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'More Czechs believe in infomercials on television than they do in religion.'

DOMINIK JUN, filmmaker, after Pope Benedict XVI used a Sept. 28 speech in the Czech Republic to urge secular Czechs to rejoin the church

'It was never going to be easy.'

DAN PFEIFFER, White House deputy communications director, acknowledging that the Obama Administration may not be able to fulfill its promise to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay by Jan. 22

'I am the happiest man in the world. I just climbed a beautiful mountain.'

CLIFTON MALONEY, husband of New York Representative Carolyn Maloney, after summiting Cho...