Quotes of note
"I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsberg."
US Senator JIM BUNNING, misspelling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's name in a written apology for implying that Ginsburg had less than nine months to live
"You commie, homo-loving sons of guns."
SEAN PENN, accepting the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be voted into public office
"If you pulled up your kayak, you would have no idea there was a burying ground here."
ALLEN GONTZ, professor of coastal geology and geophysics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, on the cemetery found on Rainsford Island
"Is someone going to kill you with a piece of macaroni?"
Representative BRIAN BAIRD, Democrat of Washington, on his visit to Gaza, after discovering that Israel was blocking trucks of pasta from entering Gaza, and hearing from the United Nations that "Israel does not define pasta as part of humanitarian aid - only rice shipments"
"Why do we have to hold President Bashir or the Sudanese government responsible when the Darfur problem was caused by outside parties, and Tel Aviv (Israel), for example, is behind the Darfur crisis?"
African Union and Libyan President MUAMMAR AL-GADDAFI, urging the International Criminal Court not to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for masterminding the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region
"The Chinese say this is all one country. What do we think? You don't know what's in our hearts. They don't know what's in our hearts."
A Tibetan monk on the refusal to celebrate the Tibetan new year after the Chinese government offered money to Tibetans to celebrate extravagantly
"Going to the basketball game was nourishment for me. I was able to get that burning feeling inside, to basically see and feel and understand 'This is how much fun it is.' The crowd, the energy, the electric current."
STEPHON MARBURY, who signed with the Celtics yesterday morning, on what it was like to watch games as a fan 