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2007 in Quotes

Why don't you shut up?
- Spanish King Juan Carlos to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

As long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance... We're still dancing.
- Charles Prince, Citigroup CEO, July 9

He's fresh, he's new, there's something about him that's Google-like.
- Google employee Nicole Resz on Barack Obama

In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country.
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I'm going back to work right now. This is just the beginning.
- Al Gore after winning the Nobel prize

I'm a fairly wide guy... I tend to spread my legs when I lower my pants so they won't slide.
- Sen. Larry Craig

I will redeem myself. I have to.
- Quarterback Michael Vick after pleading guilty for his role in a dogfighting case

That giant ATM you've been living in has just shut down.
- David Wyss, chief economist at S&P

I respect the jury's verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive.
- Bush comments on the prison sentence of Lewis "Scooter" Libby

The efficiency is still low but I am quite sure that it will work in humans.
- Scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov on cloned monkey research

We cannot afford this war.
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

We hope that our actions to stabilize the financial markets and the economy will help the credit crunch we see now.
- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke

America can count on France in its battle on terror.
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy

I guess I'm like any other political figure. Everybody wants to be loved -- just sometimes the decisions you make and the consequences don't enable you to be loved.
- President George Bush

I'm determined to remove my uniform once we correct these pillars in judiciary and the executive and the parliament.
- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf

No one is going to believe anybody any more.
- Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, on CDOs

She has a very practical approach to fashion and a great sense of occasion
- Buckingham Palace as Queen Elizabeth named to fashion top 50

I don't think they are piling on because I am a woman. They are piling on because I am winning. - Hillary Clinton on her Democratic rivals

The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people -- and it is unacceptable to me. ... Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.
- President George Bush

There's no such thing as an asterisk in baseball.
- Slugger Barry Bonds

Horses are pure of heart and noble in spirit -- they can't lie and they can't steal.
- William Husson, State University of New York, on Barbaro

The struggle in Iraq may be hard, but this should not be a time for despair.
- President George Bush

From one end of his life to the other he sat in solemn thought and left so much to read, so many pages with ideas that come at you like sparks spitting from a fire.
- Jimmy Breslin on Norman Mailer, who died Nov. 10

The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate.
- Cuban leader Fidel Castro

The royal family must have ice water in their veins.
- Mohamed al-Fayed, the father of Princess Diana's lover

There were tenors, and then there was Pavarotti.
- Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli on Luciano Pavarotti, who died Sept. 6

The role of the investment banks in this process cannot be overstated. They are facilitators and earned fees at multiple stages in the process.
- Richard Neiman, NY's acting banking superintendent, on the subprime meltdown