“I think it’s grotesque, but I mean the guy must be doing it because there’s a market for it.”
MICHEAL LISOWSKI
on artist David Johnson, who has created bendable doll figurines depicting Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and other serial killers. Lisowski is a friend of four of Dahmer’s victims.

“Sell your dollars, because America will be finished soon!”
AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH
indicted in the United States for orchestrating the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, as he left a Pakistani courtroom last week.

“People might call you ‘Taliban’ or ask if you have anthrax.”
NAJWA AWAD
a Palestinian-American high-school student in Virginia, on the “terror humor” that students are using post-September II

“I’m very happy that after a period of five years I can go back to school.”
NASIBaH
a 12-year-old Afghan, expressing delight at returning to class. Banned from attending school by the Taliban, Nasibah and her female classmates are learning math designed for 7- or 8- year-olds.

“I am ashamed and feel guilty about not being able to take care of my sons properly.”
South Korean President Kim Dae Jung,
on the arrest of his son, Kim Hong Up, 52, on corruption charges. Hong Up’s younger brother, Kim Hong Gul, was arrested for corruption in May and currently awaits trial.

“We sacrificed 1,000 soldires here to defend Koreans, and one Korean killed 70 million Turks last night.”
Haluk Ulusoy,
head of Turkey’s soccer federation, on a Korean official’s controversial ruling in last Monday’s World Cup game that resulted in Turkey’s 2-1 loss to Brazil

“As a survivor of prostate cancer, I owe my life to those on the front line of medical research: the courageous participants in clinical trials.”
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Washington

“They are not Muslim. They are not human. They are just terrorists.”
Karachi Mayor Naimat Ullah,
on the perpetrators whose car bomb killed 11 Pakistanis at the U.S. Consulate on Friday

“We are checking into it to see if there is a violation of the gambling laws. We’re not getting into the moral aspect.”
Kiryat Malachi, Israel, police spokesman Gil Kleiman, on local gamblers who have been placing bets on which Israeli city will be the next to be struck by a suicide bomber

“I don’t want a banana republic. I want a real courtry.”
Hamid Karzai,
who was elected Afghanistan’s interim president expressing his hopes for his country

“I’m choosing death because South Korea has to far to compete with latin American and European teams. I will be a ghost and the 12th player on the pitch.”
Suicide note left by a World Cup fan
from South Korea who died after setting himself on fire

“Some of those New York Yankee fans might come pretty close. They’re probably bald, fat and drunk, with tattoos.”
Tokyo resident Mikako Murata,
describing the hooligans she expects to see in Japan for the World Cup

“I’m more worried about chickens going back and forth than missiles going back and forth.”
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell,
on an agreement between the United State and Russia to decrease nuclear arsenals

“He is the type of person who sleeps at 9:30 p.m. after watching the domestic news.”
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah,
on the hours he spent briefing President George W. Bush on Middle East issues

“Very good, the guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he’s intercontinental.
U.S. president George W. Bush, mocking an American reporter for asking French President Jacques Chirac a question in French at a press conference in Paris