Quotes of note

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Supreme Court nominee HARRIET MIERS'S answer to a survey in 1986 asking if she would support a constitutional amendment banning abortion except when the mother's life is at stake

This debate is like riding on a yo-yo. Will she or won't she? Only she knows for sure."

Christian conservative GARY BAUER, on whether Miers would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade

I didn't say 'former president.' I said 'president.' "

SADDAM HUSSEIN, rebuking a judge who referred to him as the former leader of Iraq

We'd like him to be tried the same way he tried his victims."

SHAKIR MAJEED , an appliance repairman in Iraq, watching the trial on television

Every American believes in good fortune and good luck, and I'm no different than anyone else."

New Hampshire Senator JUDD GREGG, after winning $853,492 in the Powerball lottery

The best-case scenario is nothing happens. The worst-case scenario is it goes any minute."

PETER JUDGE, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, on the Whittenton Pond Dam in Taunton

The results of the Iraqi election are in and the Sunnis are claiming it was rigged. So it looks like they got an American-style democracy after all."

DAVID LETTERMAN

As you know there's terrible flooding in New Hampshire. Give you an idea of how white New Hampshire is: FEMA got there in a minute and a half."

JAY LENO

I think anything you impose on players, the first reaction is going to be, 'Nah, I don't want to do that' . . . But in the end the guys . . . will feel good about how they're dressed."

ANTONIO DAVIS, president of the players' union, on the NBA'sbanning of hip-hop-style attire during official appearances

Racist!"

STEPHEN JACKSON of the Indiana Pacers on the dress code

I told you he wore shoes."

What a BOY reportedly said to ''Shoeless" Joe Jackson as he left a courthouse after testifying in the Black Sox scandal in 1919. Legend has the boy saying, ''Say it isn't so, Joe."