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"I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism."
Jayson Blair,
former New York Times reporter, on his fabrication of stories for the newspaper

"I feel incompetent as President and a sense of crisis that I will not be able to perform my presidential duties."
Roh Moo Hyun,
South Korean President, three months into his term

"This is a compromise, and in a compromise, no one gets all that they want."
Kofi Annan,
U.N. Secretary General, after the U.N. Security Council voted to...

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