The terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, led by (Jordanian) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, on the hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan: "After studying and observing the targets, the places of execution were chosen to be some hotels which the tyrant (king) of Jordan has turned into a back yard for the enemies of Islam, such as the Jews and Crusaders."
The late Steve Courson, an early 1980s offensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers who became one of the first National Football League players to acknowledge using steroids - in 1990, on steroid use: "It's as much drug abuse to take steroids as heroin or cocaine. . . . To say that anabolic steroids didn't play in the Steelers' (1980s) success would be a falsehood. But this isn't a Steelers problem. It's a league-wide problem."
Republican Congressman Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on a leak about secret U.S. prisons overseas holding captured members of al-Qaida: "The seemingly endless stream of leaks in Washington poses a growing and insidious threat to U.S. national security. . . . The clear issue at hand is our ability to conduct the nation's secret business in secret. The reality is, we are a nation at war."
Syndicated Pulitzer Prize cartoonist Michael Ramirez on his removal as editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times: "I can't help but think it's . . . a philosophical parting of the ways . . . . You have a newspaper that has such a grand tradition of editorial cartooning. I think it makes (the Times) a lesser product and I think the readers lose."
President Theodore Roosevelt, in 1919: "We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming an American, and nothing but an American. . . . There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag . . . and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."