It was not something for me...... because silence was a basic condition.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on turning down an offer in her youth to be part of East Germany's secret police by telling them she couldn't keep a secret.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, rejecting claims that she was complicit in the use of waterboarding and accusing the CIA of lying about its interrogation practices.
A South Korean businessman who was among the nearly 300 guests and staff at a hotel in Hong Kong released after being held in quarantine for a week due to a feared outbreak of swine flu.