“They’re going to wonder how you knew that, George.” British Prime Minister Tony Blair, after President Bush joked about the two leaders’ using the same toothpaste during their first meeting last March
“Most of the things we do have never been done before.” Promotional statement appearing in the “Who We Are"section of the Web site for Enron, the Houston company that filed the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history.
“We don’t want the EU de Toilette to stink like sweaty hands.” Perfumer Robert Jelinek, unveiling plans last August for a fragrance named EU de Toilette, which will use the smell of the Austrian schilling, the German Deutsche mark and French franc to ease the nasal transition to new euro notes
“This is Argentina, damn it! My grandparents came from Spain to build a better life in a prosperous country, and now, what is left?” Farmer Carlos Lopez, on the collapse of the Argentine economy in the wake of recession and government overspending
“You can’t have a trade summit these days without tear gas; it would be like having a cheeseburger without cheese.” A senior Bush administration official, on the clashes between anti-globalization protesters and police that delayed the opening of the Summit of the Americas last April
“History may judge us to have collaborated in the greatest genocide of all time.” Malegapuru Makgoba, a top South African scientist and president of the Medical Research Council, on the government’s reluctant approach to battling AIDS
“I still find him very cute and likable. What can I say? He is my hero. Mira Markovic, on her hubby, Slobodan Milosevic
“I have to confess, it was hard for me to concentrate in the conversation with Condoleezza Rice because she has very nice legs.” Ariel Sharon, on his meeting last summer with the U.S. national-security adviser
“What do you mean, they’re gone?” Julie Anderson, after escaping from her office in the World Trade Center and learning the towers had collapsed
“I was thinking the fire…[would] collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only. That is all that we had hoped for.” Osama bin Laden, in a videotape that the Pentagon says proves he was behind the September 11 attacks
