20041231
quotes
Courtesy of Newsweek.
"I'm so overexposed, I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse. I figure there's nowhere to go from here but down." - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, talking about his improbable rise in the American political consciousness.
"We're angry. We want the shots." - Dalenda Corozon of Georgia, in reaction to a shortage of flu shots.
"You see those shingles over there? Charley did that. You see this tar paper over here? That's Frances." - Henry Seay of Florida, pointing out the back-to-back hurricane damage.
"His father went to the store. The tsunami hit and he never came back." - Crystal Lake monk Sujatha Peradeniye, relating the human destruction of earthquake-produced tsunamis at year's end in Southeast Asia.
"Now, today, the Ukrainian people have won. I congratulate you." - Viktor Yushchenko, after surviving attempts to poison him and prevailing to win the presidency of the Ukraine in his nation's third presidential election.
"We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined and lethal ... its hostility toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religious and political pluralism, the plebiscite and equal rights for women." - The 9/11 Commission Report, on those who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.
"I don't know too many people who have the opportunity to do what they enjoy doing and to give their lives while doing it. If every mother said, 'No, don't go,' who'd be there?" - Georgette Frank, mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Phillip E. Frank of Elk Grove Village, who died in Iraq on April 8. ¶ 12/31/2004 08:03:00 PM
"I'm so overexposed, I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse. I figure there's nowhere to go from here but down." - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, talking about his improbable rise in the American political consciousness.
"We're angry. We want the shots." - Dalenda Corozon of Georgia, in reaction to a shortage of flu shots.
"You see those shingles over there? Charley did that. You see this tar paper over here? That's Frances." - Henry Seay of Florida, pointing out the back-to-back hurricane damage.
"His father went to the store. The tsunami hit and he never came back." - Crystal Lake monk Sujatha Peradeniye, relating the human destruction of earthquake-produced tsunamis at year's end in Southeast Asia.
"Now, today, the Ukrainian people have won. I congratulate you." - Viktor Yushchenko, after surviving attempts to poison him and prevailing to win the presidency of the Ukraine in his nation's third presidential election.
"We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined and lethal ... its hostility toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world of religious and political pluralism, the plebiscite and equal rights for women." - The 9/11 Commission Report, on those who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.
"I don't know too many people who have the opportunity to do what they enjoy doing and to give their lives while doing it. If every mother said, 'No, don't go,' who'd be there?" - Georgette Frank, mother of Marine Lance Cpl. Phillip E. Frank of Elk Grove Village, who died in Iraq on April 8. ¶ 12/31/2004 08:03:00 PM
