Everybody loves a quote:  Top news and media quotes of October   Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

"So, I've told people, that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."  -President George W. Bush, October 17th news conference

"I do understand beauty...I do own Miss Universe.  I do own Miss USA.  I mean, I own a lot of different things.  I do understand beauty."  -Donald Trump, on Larry King

"Either they were going to give it to me sometime before I popped off or not at all." -Doris Lessing  on winning Nobel Prize for Literature

"Dumbledore is gay." -- Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling outing one of her characters while speaking to fans at Carnegie Hall.

"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity." -- Al Gore  after being awarded Nobel Peace Price

"I am not a killer or an armed robber, I just want to play golf." - O. J. Simpson

"That's the first time I've been asked how do we get prepared for an outerspace attack.  Well, if we're properly prepared for all the different things that could happen to us, we'll be prepared for that as well.  Right?" -Rudy Giuliani to a child asking about protecting ourselves from alien invasions

"Yes, but we're talking about American interests," Lynne Cheney clarifies to Jon Stewart on The Daily Show.

"We just want Jews to be perfected."  Anne Coulter on CNBC's Big Idea

"When I was a little girl in South Africa [yup, that's where she was born], people pointed to America as a sort of example.  It seemed sensible, principled, governed in an admirable way...[now] wherever I go, no one wants to talk about America as a superpower.  It's all about India and China.  What's their model?  What's next for them?  They're the superpowers now.  Not us." -Charlize Theron tells Esquire

   

 

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