"What you see now are the various Democratic candidates kind of groping for a religious strategy. For some of them, it doesn't come naturally." -- Political scientist James Guth of Furman University on the presidential hopefuls trying to make the point with voters that they -- like President Bush -- believe in God.
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"I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away. Opportunity has touched down in an alien and bizarre landscape. I still don't know what we're looking at." -- Scientist Steven Squyres describing his reaction to the first pictures of Mars transmitted from NASA's rover Opportunity, which landed on the Red Plant over the weekend.
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"I don't think they exist." -- Outgoing arms inspector David Kay explaining why he didn't find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
-- The Associated Press
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