"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them."- HILLARY CLINTON, responding to a question about a possible Iranian nuclear attack on Israel
"Some people counted me out and said to drop out, but the American people don't quit, and they deserve a president who doesn't quit either."- CLINTON, after her victory in Pennsylvania's primary Tuesday
"Considering his financial advantage, the question ought to be, why can't he close the deal?"- CLINTON, on Democratic front-runner Barack Obama
"There is a sense of urgency about the time we're losing and a sense of urgency that we not savage each other to the benefit of Senator McCain."- DAVID AXELROD, Barack Obama's chief strategist, after the Pennsylvania primary
"There are babies who are now walking and talking who were born since I announced for president."- BARACK OBAMA, on 15 months of campaigning
"The blowing up of sermons preached 15, seven, six years ago . . . having made me the target of hatred, yes, that is something very new."- Rev. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, Obama's former pastor, on sermons that became a presidential campaign flashpoint
"I'm a big shot in Boston, and I'll have your [expletive] jobs. You think you're a tough guy, you just watch and see what the [expletive] happens to you when I get the [expletive] out of here."- RANDI GOLDKLANK, general manager of Channel 7, quoted in a State Police report as threatening troopers after being removed from a flight at Logan Airport
"We counseled President Carter against going to the region and particularly against having contacts with Hamas."- Secretary of State CONDOLEEZZA RICE, on the former president's peace talks with the Palestinian group
"At least here with the Iraqis we can get them on the same plane, we just have to work out the seating arrangement. So that's something."- PADRAIG O'MALLEY, UMass-Boston professor, contrasting recent peace talks among Iraqi sectarian leaders with those among Northern Ireland's leaders, who would not share flights
"It was them saying, 'We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you.' "- ROBERT S. BEVELACQUA, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News military analyst, on the Pentagon's efforts to influence TV analysts' commentary on the Iraq war
"I heard them."- 
