“For the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry."
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, apologizing to members of the "Stolen Generation" of Aborigines, an estimated 100,000 children who until the 1970s were forcibly taken from indigenous parents under now discriminated assimilation policies
“The bride was wearing white and was ravishing, as usual... the bridegroom wasn't bad either."
Francois Lebel, mayor of Paris's eighth arondissement, who married French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model turned bride Carla Bruni in a private civil ceremony last Saturday
Kenyan Elizabeth Mwangi, on the assassination of would-be peacemaker Melitus Mugabe Were, a freshman Parliament member who was dragged from his car and shot to death last week. More than 800 people have been killed since December's disputed presidential election.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, lashing out at what he called Western "intellectual arrogance" toward his country and dismissing the claim that he cannot be trusted to hold fair elections.