Verbatim

By Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kate Carcaterra, Sean Gregory, David Robinson, Roy B. White And Rebecca Winters Sunday, June 16, 2002
    • "The priesthood lost me but kept the perpetrator." MICHAEL BLAND, psychologist and former priest, speaking about his abuse by a priest as a teenager

    "Anytime a CEO of a biotech comes up to you and says I want to do a strategic alliance, and I want the equity portion of that deal to be a tender offer, what you should do is take the guy by the hand and show him the door." JAN BUCK, Arthur D. Little manager, on ImClone's deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb

    "He's the highest-paid speaker in the history of the lecture industry." DON WALKER, president of the New York agency that handles speaking engagements for Bill Clinton, on Clinton's $9.2 million take in 2001

    "He's too big and strong. I don't know if I could ever beat this guy." MIKE TYSON, former heavyweight champion, on the beating he took from Lennox Lewis

    "I will continue to have this fight go on until we are completely sure that there is no danger to civilians anywhere, in any part of society, in any part of the world, from terrorism." HAMID KARZAI, Interim President of Afghanistan, on his resolution to rid his country of al-Qaeda

    Sources: New York Times; TIME's Unmesh Kher; Washington Post; New York Times (2)