What’s going on around us..lets hear from some famous people

“You're looking for some sort of guillotine to come falling down if some date isn't met. That is not what this is about.”
— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Stating that setting benchmarks for the Iraqi government does not imply strict deadlines

“You can have a bad week, you can have two bad weeks, but when you have two bad months, you have to reassess. You cannot afford to lose the numbers we are losing now.”
— Rep. Anne M. Northup


“We are very sensitive to political perceptions.”
— Mark W. Everson
The IRS commissioner, who has close ties to the White House, after he ordered his agency to delay collecting back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until after the Nov. 7 elections and the holiday season.

“Humanity committed a grave error by constructing the Berlin wall... today the U.S. is committing a grave error in constructing a wall along our northern border.”
— Felipe Calderon
The Mexican president-elect, about the fence

“Greetings to your President. What a mighty man he turns out to be! He raped 10 women—I would never have expected this from him. ”
— Vladimir Putin
The Russian president, sarcastically joking about rape allegations against Israeli President Moshe Katsav


“Absolutely, we're winning. Al-Qaeda is on the run... We're winning, and we will win unless we leave before the job is done. ”
— President Bush
At his press conference


“This is inciting young men to a violent crime because it is the woman's fault. It is time the Islamic community did more than say they were horrified.”
— Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward
On Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali's comments on Muslim headdresses


“I feel the media is doing a great disservice to all the orphans of Africa.”
— Madonna

“ One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps... you get the satellite... I kinda like to look at the ranch. It reminds me of where I wanna be sometimes.”
— President Bush
on his Internet search habits

“It's in place and ready to go.”
— Mohamed ElBaradei
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, confirming that Iranian technicians had pieced together a second line, or cascade, of 164 centrifuges and are days away from using the cascade to enrich uranium

“If you weren't sitting in that chair, I'd slap you across the face.”
— Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY)
To Libertarian Thom Rankin, who is disabled and uses a wheelchair, and who had criticized her for receiving contributions from former House Speaker Tom DeLay (R-Texas), immediately following a televised debate


“ They either seize the opportunity or they don't. If they don't, then our government is going to have to readjust what we are going to do, and that is not my call.”
— Maj. Gen. J. D. Thurman
senior commander of the American forces in Baghdad

“ My children are imprisoned at home... I forced my son to leave school. It's more important that he be alive than educated.”
— Daniel
a cook and a Christian, who is planning to leave Iraq with his family