I have to be honest, we've been pitched a real curveball. Rest assured, this is only the first inning . . . I want you to know that Teddy is in fighting form, and ready to take this on. We're so grateful that you'll be with him along the way."
VICTORIA KENNEDY, Ted Kennedy's wife, in an e-mail to friends after the senator was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor
We have returned to Iowa with a majority of delegates elected by the American people, and you have put us within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America."
BARACK OBAMA, after a victory in Oregon's Democratic primary gave him a majority of all pledged delegates at stake in primaries and caucuses
Joy. You feel joy for a kid like that."
JOHN FARRELL, Red Sox pitching coach, after Jon Lester, a 24-year-old cancer survivor, pitched a no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals on Monday
Every once in a while you get a student who just lights up the room with their energy and intelligence and goodness, and that's really what she was like. It's hard to believe she's gone ... Enormous potential to do good in this world has been lost."
STEPHEN FLANAGAN, on the murder of Northeastern University student Rebecca Payne, 22, whom he taught in high school
I'm constantly surprised at the creativity in the wrong direction of airline management."CLAES FORNELL of the University of Michigan, on American Airlines announcement that it will charge many domestic passengers $15 to check a piece of luggage
Spending $1 billion doesn't go quite as far as it used to."
DANIEL BOSLEY, a North Adams Democrat, who wrote the House's version of the life science bill and earmarked $49.5 million for a science center at his alma mater, the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, which has no graduate science programs
