“I am deeply ashamed, and we will do what is possible so this cannot happen again in the future."
Pope Benedict XVI, addressing the clergy sex-abuse scandal that has cost the church more than $2 billion and devastated the United States' Roman Catholic community
“Going after a torchbearer in a wheelchair, [that] I have no respect for.”
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, criticizing Parisians who mobbed a paraplegic bearer during the torch's European leg, before it arrived in California.
Peruvian judge cesar San Martin, scolding the former president for snoozing at his own trial, where he stands accused of authorizing death-squad kidnappings and massacres that led to 25 deaths in the early 1990s
Vice President Dick Cheney, responding to ABC News's White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, after she cited a recent poll showing that most Americans do not believe the Iraq War was worth fighting