Briefing

'People say we've dodged a bullet, but we've lost lives.'

1. CRAIG FUGATE, FEMA chief, on critics who claim that Hurricane Irene predictions were overblown

'This is something we can and should be celebrating, if only in the name of diversity.'

2. FELIX SALMON, Reuters columnist, saying journalists who write about new Apple CEO Tim Cook should not hide the fact that Cook is gay

'It's deeply bizarre and deeply creepy.'

3. VICTORIA NULAND, State Department spokeswoman, after an album of photos of former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was found in Muammar Gaddafi's Tripoli compound

'Al-Qaeda as an idea...

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