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2006 in Quotes

I’m the decider, and I decide what is best.
- President Bush, announcing the secretary of defense would not be replaced, April 18

This is not a clash between civilizations. It is a clash about civilization.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, March 21

The devil came here yesterday. And it smells of sulphur still today.
- Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said, referring to President Bush

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair

We want peace but do not fear war.
- North Korea's foreign ministry

Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman.
- Pope Benedict quoting from a 14th-Century Byzantine emperor on Sept. 12

I know we've made tactical errors - thousands of them, I'm sure.
- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, March 31

I am officially announcing that Iran has joined the group of those countries which have nuclear technology. - Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, April 11

I firmly believe that the war could have been avoided.
- Kofi Annan the outgoing UN Secretary-General on the war in Iraq, Nov. 21

You walk the halls here, you rarely see a picture of a woman, a statue of a woman.
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi on becoming the first woman Speaker of the House

Go to hell, you and the court! You don't decide anything, you are servants of the occupiers and lackeys!
- Saddam Hussein in court

Never had a gay relationship with anybody, and I'm steady with my wife.
- Rev. Ted Haggard who resigned after a male escort’s accusations

You look at it on television or in the newspaper, and it doesn't even begin to capture the magnitude of it.
- Bill Friend, 80, upon visiting New Orleans

I knew in my heart I was ready for a change and a new challenge.
- Katie Couric

I wish I wasn't… There is nothing good that comes out of that.
- Bill Gates on his ranking as the world's richest man

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the (congestion) charge like everybody else and not skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
- London Mayor Ken Livingstone

I swear by God we shall not rest from jihad until we...blow up the filthiest house known as the White House.
- A recording, believed to be from Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Nov. 10

Any important Republican who comes out and says they didn't know me is almost certainly lying.
- Jack Abramoff said in the April edition of Vanity Fair

He is somebody who divides, who throws little bombs -- rhetorical bombs into rooms -- and he seeks to tear people down.
- Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns on Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez

Dear Aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.
- A computer failed to recognize 'Dear Mom' in a Vista speech recognition demo on July 27

I am recovering at a satisfactory pace.
- Fidel Castro in a message to the Cuban people, Sept. 5

You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.
- George W. Bush, Sept. 6

I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google (maps).
- George Bush

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.
- John Kerry

I am not a bigot.
- Mel Gibson apologizes after drunk-driving arrest tirade

I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project. - News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch after scrapping an O.J. Simpson special

These claims are part of a propaganda campaign against our country by evil nitwits Uzbekestan. - Sasha Baron Cohen responds as Borat

We didn't see any ships for months. [Now] we're recovering, sleeping a lot, and eating well.
- Lucio Rendon, one of three Mexican fishermen rescued after 11 months at sea

That episode was a lapse of judgment on my part.
- Fed Chair Ben Bernanke regrets comments made to a reporter

You can't keep the Web out... Most of our stuff is there already, it's just pirated.
- Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons on China

I think the whole consultant group should be flushed into the East River and no value loss would ever be seen by man.
- IAC/InterActiveCorp. CEO Barry Diller on compensation consultants

Howard Stern "gets paid a lot of money… I wish you could get the talent for less money. That would be really cool. But you just can't get it."
- Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin

Very few business executives are out there talking about the benefits of trade and very few politicians have enough knowledge or courage to try to educate the public.
- Jim Owens, Caterpillar’s CEO

That's the greediest bunch of people I have ever dealt with, without question.
- Ron Gettelfinger, president of UAW union said of Delphi Corp. talks

The bastards got me. But they won't get everybody.
- Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko

I don’t think she's emotionless. I think the business of her expressing emotion is deeply private. - Helen Mirren on Queen Elizabeth II

OPEC is not determining the price... This cartel abdicated the pricing power to the futures market.
- Shokri Ghanem, Chairman, Libyan National Oil Co.

No, sir!
- Defense nominee Robert Gates, when asked if the U.S. was winning in Iraq

We know that trans fats increase the chance of heart attack, stroke and death, and they don't have to be there.
- NYC Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden

The new anxiety is the global struggle against terrorism without mercy or limit.
- Prime Minister Tony Blair

Every individual has the right to a fair trial, even people accused of crimes of the magnitude that Saddam Hussein faced, and this has not been a fair trial.
- Malcolm Smart, Amnesty International

I am a man before anything else.
- France's Zinedine Zidane, sent off in the World Cup final for headbutting Marco Materazzi.

I got to party and socialize at an Olympic level.
- U.S. ski team's Bode Miller, who left the Turin Olympics without a medal

I probably did take my new found freedom a little too far.
- Britney Spears, Dec. 7, in a posting on her website

(The Ochs-Sulzberger family) has no intention of opening any of our doors to the action that is tearing at the heart of some of the other great journalistic institutions of our country.
- NY Times CEO Janet Robinson, Dec. 6

No one can guarantee that any course of action in Iraq at this point will stop sectarian warfare, growing violence, or a slide toward chaos.
- Iraq Study Group

The current approach is not working and the ability of the United States to influence events is diminishing.
- Lee Hamilton, co-Chairman of the Iraq Study Group

It hasn't produced any Bob Dylans, it is not going to produce a James Taylor or a Joni Mitchell. It produces crap.
- David Crosby on the state of the music industry

I'd just like to say this: The speaker of the House is a chick!
- Actress Maria Bello, referring to incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi