Short Cuts

What They Are Saying:

"The idea that you treat a gay union the same way as you treat a union between a man and a woman is, in my view, to misunderstand the fundamental bedrock character of marriage." - Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

"I don't need any publicity, I am better known than Coca-Cola." - Smut peddler and former Clinton opposition researcher Larry Flynt

"He was practically unintelligible. He couldn't put two sentences together that made any sense." - Reporter checking a transcript of Sen. Fritz Hollings ungracious retirement remarks.

"(It's) just one of those stories that emerge in Washington that reflects nothing more than gossip." - Secretary of State remarking on Washington Post story that he would not serve beyond 2005.

"As the camel falls, the knives that would stab it multiply." - Old Arabian adage spoken by the owner of the Madhya Chicken Restaurant in Tikrit as American search force combs the area for Saddam.

"If I were a straight woman reporting heterosexual harassment by a straight male priest would you take this matter seriously? Well, I am a straight man reporting homosexual harassment by a gay priest ....." - Portion of email accusing Canon Gene Robinson of inappropriate sexual behavior from a man identifying himself as David Lewis.

"This is a guy who instead of taking a cab from point A to point B buys a Bentley." - Judd Burnstein, a lawyer for Lennox Lewis commenting on Mike Tyson declaration of bankruptcy.

"The Jews didn't kill Christ. They just worried him to death." - NYTimes columnist Frank Rich's stepfather.

"We're just glad he's in. In office, or in town? " - Owner of a Harley Hog from the Harley-Davidson club in Grand Prairie, Tex., as he rode his bike past the barricades at the Western White House.