Perspectives.

Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: The Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters (2), Associated Press, BBC, The Washington Post, CNN, The Washington Post, Associated Press, The Times (London), New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer

"They came out dead."

Brig. Gen. Frank Helmick, on the raid that killed ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay

"In a few days they will show us another fat body with a beard and say it's Saddam."

Zohair Maty, a 30-year-old Iraqi laborer, skeptical that pictures of Saddam Hussein's sons were authentic

"We've seen surfboards, pieces of Styrofoam, bathtubs, refrigerators. But never an automobile."

Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Doss, on 12 Cubans who tried to sail a 1951 Chevy truck from the communist-ruled island to the United States

"Don't run. You will be terminated."

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, warning Arnold Schwarzenegger against running for governor in the recall election this fall

"Fourteen-year-old girls steal lipstick, not rob banks."

Detective Michael Duffy, of Barnegat, N.J., on a bank heist that involved an entire family, including 14-year-old twin sisters

"To me, this is more important than the presidential visit we had last year."

Army veteran Larry Knopp, who waited hours to see the parade in Elizabeth, W. Va., honoring former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch

"Simply put, our results show that Kansas is considerably flatter than a pancake."

Conclusion by geographers from Southwest Texas State University in a report on the topography of Kansas

"You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president."

Former president Bill Clinton, on faulty intelligence included in President George W. Bush's State of the Union Message

"I don't do quagmires."

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, searching for a word to describe the current operation in Iraq

"Justice requires the evidence be reviewed and considered in its entirety."

Hamilton County, Ohio, Judge Richard Niehaus, declaring a mistrial in an obscenity case after a male juror fell asleep while watching a porn movie that was key evidence

"It isn't as if I killed anyone against their will."

German cannibal Herr Miewes, who met a fellow fantasist on the Internet and subsequently ate him

"You cannot be a good Santa if you smell of alcohol."

Garcia Quintero, member of an international coalition of department-store Santas, renewing his vow to stay away from booze while on the job

"I'm a person who hasn't had a relationship in a very long time and hasn't had sex for over a year, so I find my personal life really boring."

Actress Angelina Jolie, on her off-screen life

Quotation sources from top to bottom: The Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters (2), Associated Press, BBC, The Washington Post, CNN, The Washington Post, Associated Press, The Times (London), New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer