Verbatim

“We are all part of a great venture: to extend the promise of freedom in our country, to renew the values that sustain our liberty, and to spread the peace that freedom brings.”
GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in last week’s State of the Union address

“You can see the finger with which he voted. He’s a martyr now.”
SALIM YACOUBI, Najaf resident, whose brother, 37-year-old Naim Rahim Yacoubi, was one of more than 50 voters killed on election day in Iraq

“I submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period.”
DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, recalling the uproar over abuses at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison

“Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people.”
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JAMES MATTIS, who commanded U.S. Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq, in comments during a panel discussion for which he was later reprimanded

“So what else can you say about democracy in Cambodia except that we are now doing a U-turn to a dictatorship?”
UNG BUN ANG, spokesman for Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who fled the country following a government ruling that would allow him to be tried for allegedly libeling Prime Minister Hun Sen

“There will be no rose, orange or banana revolutions.”
ALEKSANDER LUKASHENKO, Belarus President, dismissing the possibility of his country experiencing a pro-democracy movement such as Ukraine’s Orange Revolution

“Of course, we have the girls.”
MATTHEW SMITH, manager of the Hooters restaurant in Shanghai, on the advantage its scantily-clad waitresses give it over other American restaurant chains in China