"If you can't trust the faith-based assistant to the president, who can you trust?" -- Fort Wayne, IN News-Sentinel Editorial Page Editor Leo Morris, commenting on the 20 of 38 plagiarized guest columns by Timothy S. Goeglein, an aide to President Bush responsible for outreach to conservative and Christian groups.

"Justice is, in my view of things, is the last priority. As it is in any war." -- Jeffrey Addicott, who advised the Bush administration on its military tribunals regarding enemy combatants at Guantanamo and elsewhere (Frontline, "Extraordinary Rendition", Part 2, 5:17).

"In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make" -- Paris Hilton, (June 3, 2007; Ms. Hilton was philosophizing about her imminent time to be served in a Lynwood, CA jail.)

"it's not my business to do intelligent work"  -- Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (House Armed Services Committee meeting, Feb 16, 2005; quoted in the Washington Post Feb 17 2005, "Secretary on the Offensive". Mr. Rumsfeld apparently meant to say 'intelligence', not 'intelligent'.)
   
"Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.... So nothing will ever make you as happy as you think it will." -- Daniel Kahneman (in an interview with Gallup, Feb. 2005) more

“I like having the respect of my peers and the politeness from strangers. But I think a lot of the praise I get is exaggerated. I’ll be happy when things settle down and no one wants to talk to me.” -- ­ Duncan Luce, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences and Economics in the School of Social Sciences, in reaction to the attention he received after being awarded the National Medal of Science. Orange County Register, March 15, 2005.