RESOLUTION adopted by the Lower House of Japan's parliament on the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, controversially omitting apologies for "acts of aggression" and "colonial rule" used in a similar statement 10 years ago
"The security services are embarrassed because they have spent vast sums over six years but they still can't catch Basayev, and here he is talking to a journalist."
ANDREI BABITSKY, journalist, on Moscow's decision to bar U.S.-based abc News from Russia after it broadcast his interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev
"The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews."
N. WAYNE HALE, deputy manager of nasa's space-shuttle program, on last week's never-before-attempted spacewalk to repair the shuttle Discovery's underside
"I, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor, accept responsibility for the ... assault. The pain and hurt caused to you and to your family is deeply regretted."
RAHIM NOOR, former Malaysian police chief, in a statement apologizing for the beating of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during Anwar's controversial 1998 arrest on sodomy and corruption charges
"I feel like someone broke into my house and tried to rearrange my furniture."
DEIRDRE BAIR, author of a biography of the late Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, reacting to publisher Random House's decision to insert two pages of information contradicting her thesis into the German edition of her book at the insistence of Jung's family
"Billy Idol called he wants his look back."
JENNIFER ANISTON, actress, in her first interview since she and actor Brad Pitt split up, on her estranged husband's new hairdo