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These reeky tardy-gaited hugger-muggers on the Liberal bench, along with their odiferous unchin-snouted fustilarian colleagues could serve Canada better by focusing on what actually matters.

David Asper, idiot son of the late Izzy Asper, and Chairman of The National Post, in a column he made The National Post actually run

I am completely opposed to my son being used as ground fodder for an undisclosed reason.

Chris Craig, father of 28-year-old Canadian soldier scheduled to return to Afghanistan for a second tour

We tried to do our best [in Iraq], but I believe there is a great room for criticism, because—undoubtedly—there was arrogance and stupidity in US [dealings] with Iraq.

Alberto Fernandez, US diplomat, who has since apologized for, and corrected, his moment of honesty

He is a Democrat who just happens to be the number one cheerleader for the war.

John Orman, political scientist, on Joe Leiberman, former Democratic senator ousted by opponents for his support for Bush

Sometimes I have to shake my head that what my parents understood, what the Bible teaches me, has become so obnoxious to some elites and to unelected judges in our country—I just can’t believe where we’re headed, unless God intervenes.

Darrel Reid, newly appointed chief of staff to Conservative federal environment minister Rona Ambrose. Reid is former president of the Canadian arm of the influential US-based Christian fundamentalist group Focus on the Family

We can do the clearing. But once you clear, if you don’t leave somebody in there and build civil capacity in there, then it’s the old mud-hole approach. You know, the water runs out of the mud hole when you drive through the mud hole, and then it runs back into it.

J D Thurman, senior commander of US forces in Iraq, comparing the ancient cradle of civilization to a pothole

He shouldn’t be speculating like that, because he should have called me ahead of time.

George W Bush, speaking about his father, the former George H W Bush, who said in an interview he feared for his son having to deal with Democratic control of both Houses after November mid-term elections

If we knew then what we now know, there never would have been a vote and there would never have been a war.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democratic Senator and contender for the White House in 2008, explaining how neither she nor anyone in her party were able to read back then

Find me any war that we’ve ever had that has gone well. Wars do not go well.

John Spencer, Republican challenger to Clinton in a Senate race, hoping to defuse criticism of Republican handling of the war in Iraq, by suggesting his country always bungles wars

No doubt it’s harder to make nuclear warheads than to set up an Internet network. It’s all a question of priorities.

Julien Pain, Internet desk at Reporters without Borders, on North Korea’s uneven technological developments

After 30 years in Canada, the last print edition of the magazine TV Guide will appear on November 20. Its online replacement will rely entirely on advertising for its revenues.

New York Times

Did I win?

Robert Cheruiyot, Kenyan winner of Chicago marathon, who slipped backward, banged his head, and slid on his back, unconscious, over the finish line

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