"We wanted the best, but it turned out as always."
-- Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian prime minister, 1992-1998; now, a billionaire oligarch

"Mom, we killed women on the street today. We killed kids on bikes. We had no choice."

Their plans may have been dreamy. But at least, they had plans.

He called her "an incompetent fool," but said he would vote for her anyway.

Our first sight of death was a man and his wife both ripped open and dismembered, their intestines strewn across shattered boxes of candy bars.

Many people will use this terrible tragedy as an excuse to put through a political agenda other than my own. This tawdry abuse of human suffering for political gain sickens me to the core of my being.

"Children in the back seat, lower suspicion, we let it move through," Barbero said. "They parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back."

We sign these treaties to protect us from ourselves, not from them.

This change looks reasonable at first, but it could create huge long-term security risks for the United States.

Romney is fond of PowerPoint and terms like "strategic audits" and "wow moments."

People do not like to be deceived, and the price of being exposed is lost credibility and trust.

He was overwhelmed by what he saw at a Houston supermarket, by the kaleidoscopic variety of meats and vegetables available to ordinary Americans.

"We will disrupt their workday with a mildly offensive blinking neon light!"
"Death to America!!!!"
"Death to America!!!!"