"The White House is won in the swing states, and I am winning the swing states."
Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton, after on overwhelming victory in the West Virginia primary.
"I was getting ready for bed and had gone to the kitchen to turn the light off. On the way back to my bedroom, someone knocked on the door and told us to get out."
Jasmine Hernandez, 34, on the fast moving fire that destroyed her apartment building at 183 Bailey St., Lawrence. Some 23 people were left homeless by the blaze.
"People always underestimate how quickly a fire will develop. There are a lot of concealed spaces and you could have a fire in progress for quite some time and not even realize it."
Lawrence Deputy fire Chief Jack Bergeron on the Bailey Street fire. Within five minutes of the first fire crew's arrival, the building began to collapse.
"It's not an everyday occurrence, but as more veterans die and families clean the homes, we're finding more. As time goes by, the mechanisms deteriorate and makes it more sensitive."
Lawrence police Sgt. John Dushame, noting that many World War I and World War II veterans brought back grenades, pistols and other items as souvenirs. The state police bomb squad was called in to remove four World War II era grenades found in a Lawrence home. The grenades turned out to be inert.
"Remember what you have here at Londonderry High. You have the best teachers, the best staff, best students, best parents."
Londonderry High School Principal James Elefante, addressing a pep rally of staff and students after the school was named New Hampshire's 2008 High School of Excellence.
"We've done everything that we've been asked, over and over."
Joseph Scott, who with partner Dennis Metara purchased the former Coca-Cola plant in Salem, N.H. They have spent the last three years and $100,000 trying to obtain approval from the town's Planning Board to redevelop the site.
"The wedding was spectacular. It's just — it's all we could have hoped for."
President Bush on giving his daughter Jenna away to her longtime beau.
"As California goes, so goes the rest of the nation. It's inevitable. This door's wide open now. It's going to happen, whether you like it or not."
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, after California's Supreme Court declared that gay couples can marry.
"The Internet is a world unto itself. People must know how far they can go before they must stop."
FBI agent Salvador Hernandez, after the indictment of a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating an Internet hoax against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.
"It is sad that in these modern times, there remains a need to address the problem of individuals who use nooses as a means of threat and intimidation."
New York Gov. David Paterson, signing a law making it a felony to display a noose as a threat.
"I was confident that you were coming to rescue me. I'm alive. I'm so happy."
A 22-year-old survivor rescued Thursday in Dujiangyan, China, after Monday's earthquake had buried her under rubble.
"Some people suggest that if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away. This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of our enemies, and America rejects it utterly. Israel's population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because America stands with you."
President Bush in a speech before the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
