This Week In Quotables
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"I hope we don't treat this like a fruit salad and say, 'I like this, but I don't like that.'"
--James Baker, co-chair, Iraq Study Group, to the Senate Armed Services Committee, regarding how he would like the panel's report to be received.
"The U.S. effectively sent a bull in to liberate a china shop, and the Study Group now called upon the U.S. to threaten to remove the bull if the shop doesn't fix the china."
--Oft-quoted Military Analyst Anthony Cordesman, on the Iraq Study Group's strategy.
"No, Sir."
--Incoming Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, responding to Sen. Carl Levin's question of whether we are winning in Iraq.
"They make it sound like you could leave a nuclear weapon on the streets of Baghdad and nobody would know what to do with it. I don't think that is quite the case."
--Philip Coyle, former director of a nuclear weapons lab, on the technology that purports to make stolen weapons impossible to use.