“All I wanted was to be a university teacher.”

“A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.”

“I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.”

“We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.”

“We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that.”

“The building of this site would not be possible without the courageous decision by President Bush to liberate Iraq. This building is not only a compound for the embassy but a symbol of the deep fri...”

“Okay. We've got about twenty minutes before I get mean again.' She laughed, relieved the night was still young, 'What are you, some kind of sex-werewolf?”

“True love”

“Love”

“Stand firm as surefooted as deer.”

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”