Verbatim

By Melissa August, Elizabeth L. Bland, Janice Horowitz, Roy B. White and Rebecca Winters Sunday, June 09, 2002
    • "Arafat won't even change his jacket. You think he will change his Cabinet?" A PALESTINIAN MINISTER, speaking anonymously

    "You'll appreciate this too if you're ever President, Joe." GEORGE W. BUSH, to Senator Joe Lieberman, while talking about preserving presidential prerogatives in dealing with the CIA

    "Would you mind mentioning my name?" SENATOR JOE LIEBERMAN, to Bush, on hearing Bush was headed to campaign-crucial Iowa

    "The question is whether shifting the deck chairs on the Titanic is the way to go." SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY, on the plan for a new department of homeland security

    "That is God's liking. That is probably his destiny." GRACIA BURNHAM, American missionary, of her husband's death in the Philippines during a rescue effort

    "He just said that it was one of the best he'd ever seen of Washington. He started throwing money on my desk. He wanted that picture really bad." JOHNELL BRYANT, USDA loan officer, on Mohamed Atta's trying to buy an aerial photo of Washington when he was in her office

    "This is truly Martha's day. DORTHY MOXLEY, after former neighbor Michael Skakel was convicted of murdering her daughter

    Sources: AP (2), Los Angeles Times, TIME's John Dickerson, Washington Post, ABC, New York Times