"If somebody is bodybuilding and doesn't tell me, how the hell would I know?"
DR. JOHN F. MAHONEY, who gave five examinations to Albert Arroyo, a Boston firefighter and professional bodybuilder, and judged him to be "totally and permanently" disabled
"Every time we tried picking someone up, we feared another lightning strike was coming."
HECTOR RIVERA, 21, on being caught in lightning strikes in Dorchester on Sunday
"When we looked out, it was getting green and you could see a funnel . . . Kayaks were hanging like kites in the woods."
KAREN DAIL of Epsom, on the scene during Thursday's violent storms in New Hampshire
"I would never have imagined that they would turn me down because of what I choose to wear."
FAIZA SILMI, whose application for French citizenship was rejected because she wears a traditional Muslim veil
"When you win wars, troops come home."
Senator JOHN McCAIN, defending his rejection of a timetable for withdrawal of US forces from Iraq
"It is a blow to Iraq and its international reputation, its athletes, and its youth."
HUSSEIN AL-AMIDI, general secretary of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, upon learning that Iraqi athletes have been banned from the Beijing Olympics due to suspected political influence on Iraq's olympic committee
"People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one."
Senator BARACK OBAMA in a speech to a crowd of more than 200,000 in Berlin
"Wall Street got drunk."
President BUSH, commenting on the nation's wavering economy at a GOP fund-raiser after requesting that cameras be turned off
"I've definitely gone to courses and paid more to go there because I could have a cold beer on the course."
SHAUN DEBOLD, 46, of Mansfield, on a bill to grant beer and wine licenses to golf courses
"I'm not going to lie to you, I'm not 100 percent. But I'm close."
Red Sox slugger DAVID ORTIZ, who returned to the lineup last night after sitting out nearly two months with a wrist injury
