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'I have trouble listening to what he says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he's talking.'

ALAN GRAYSON, a Democratic Congressman from Florida (see story), likening former Vice President Dick Cheney to a vampire after Cheney criticized President Barack Obama's handling of the war in Afghanistan

'We're entitled to it.'

T. BOONE PICKENS, financier, arguing that U.S. energy companies should receive Iraqi oil contracts as compensation for the loss of American troops in Iraq

'I didn't betray him. He betrayed me. He betrayed the thousands of us who suffered.'

JUANITA CASTRO, the younger sister of former...

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