'I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen ... I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again.'
MICHAEL CHERTOFF, Homeland Security Secretary, blasting FEMA employees for staging a fake news conference about assisting the victims of the California wildfires
'You have captured a big fish here. You guys will be on the news tonight.'
RICHARD MCNAIR, U.S. fugitive killer and three-time escapee, who was captured by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police rookie on Oct. 25
'If I had to say something about Cécilia, I would...