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Quotes of Note

"I hope we made you proud."
Celtics forward KEVIN GARNETT, embracing Celtics legend Bill Russell after his team won the NBA finals

"It's only been nine months since we went through this. We still have an open wound from my brother's death."
INDIRA CASTILLO, 27, a relative of 5-month-old Alianna Peguero and her father, Alinson, who were shot in their Mattapan home nine months after the killing of her brother, Alan

"Lab rat, guinea pig, disposable hero."
JAMES ELLIOTT, former US Army sniper, after discovering he was one of dozens of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan being used to test pharmaceutical drugs linked to suicide

"No, but that's not too important. What's important is the casualties in Iraq."
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee JOHN McCAIN, when asked when he thinks US troops will be returning home from Iraq

"I know he died, but I don't want change."
VILLAGER in Voinesti, Romania, after his village reelected the dead mayor, Neculai Ivascu

"Obviously, I would have loved to win. I don't know what else to say. They wanted a show, they got one."
ROCCO MEDIATE, who lost the US Open to Tiger Woods in a 19-hole playoff 

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