“You don’t have to be high or drunk. These kids just don’t understand the responsibility when you get behind the wheel.”

– Wendy Pritchett, whose 15-year-old daughter, Kaele, was sentenced to a state juvenile rehabilitation center on vehicular homicide and vehicular assault stemming from a fatal motor vehicle accident in which she was the unlicensed driver but had not been drinking.

“I don’t think they’re considered a weapon, really, the last time I looked.”

– U.S. Marshal Patrick McDonald, speaking about underwire bras such as the one Lori Plato, of Bonners Ferry, was required to remove before she could pass through a metal detector to enter the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene.

“If the new majority has proven one thing this session, it’s that no piece of legislation is immune from being converted into a vehicle to raise taxes.”

– U.S. House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo., reacting to a proposal by three Democrats to raise federal income taxes to pay for the war in Iraq.

“I didn’t commit no crimes. I didn’t hurt nobody. Otherwise I wouldn’t have come to the United States.”

– 85-year-old Paul Henss, a one-time Nazi now living in Georgia, responding to deportation proceedings after it was disclosed he had trained attack dogs used by German guards at Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.

“This is a black day for Pakistan. The government has succeeded in getting six puppets in its hands.”

– Pakistani lawyer Ali Ahmed Kurd, after his nation’s Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that President Pervez Musharraf could seek another five-year term without first relinquishing his leadership of the military.

“For some reason, he knew it was time to run. And thankfully he didn’t murder her before he did that.”

– Polk County, Fla., Sheriff Grady Judd after a 15-year-old girl was released by the 46-year-old sex offender with whom she had a rendezvous that grew out of an online relationship.

“The U.N. is saying the planet is urgently sick, and the Bush administration is saying, ‘Take two aspirin and call me when I leave office.’ “

– U.S. Rep Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House committee on global warming, challenging the sincerity of President Bush’s stated interest in addressing climate change.

“He said that the Lee that did that is not the same Lee now.”

– Cheryll Witz, describing a phone conversation in which D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo expressed remorse for shooting her father, Jerry Taylor, in 2002, with which neither Malvo nor his accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, was never charged.