“The (media) all drank the soup. They were all cheerleaders for this war. Not one asked the serious question that needed to be asked before we went to war. Why does a high school graduate in a baseball hat have to be the one to have to show you this?”

— Michael Moore, defending his anti-war film “Fahrenheit 911”

“We don’t have a lot of free time these days, and when we do have free time to see a good fiction movie, we’ll pick ‘Shrek’ or some other enjoy[able] feature like that.”

— White House spokesman Dan Bartlett on “Fahrenheit 911”

“I did something for the worst possible reason — just because I could. I think that’s just about the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for doing anything.”

– Former President Bill Clinton on his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky

“I got it, I got it! I’ll never sell this on eBay!”

— Bookstore customer in Manhattan after getting Clinton’s signature on a copy of his memoirs

“The real measure of government shouldn’t be the Republicans and Democrats. It should be the Bible and the Constitution.”

— Rob Peck, a member of the Constitution Party, which is bringing former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore to Spokane for a speech

“The fact that the worst offender in the state doesn’t face the death penalty must make this court re-evaluate.”

— Attorney Todd Maybrown, who told the Washington state Supreme Court that his client, who killed his wife and two stepdaughters, should have his death sentence overturned because the Green River serial killer isn’t on death row

“We’re going to have to take action because the broadcasters won’t police themselves.”

— U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., after a 99-1 vote on a bill raising the fines on broadcast companies that air indecent entertainment

“We don’t think these attacks were coordinated.”

— Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, after attacks in six cities on Thursday left as many as 100 people dead

“It’s the first time that they’ve had this level of coordination.”

— U.S. Army Maj. Brian Paxton on the Thursday attacks in Iraq