Notebook

VERBATIM

"My parents are very principled Democrats. Every now and then the President will say, 'Do I have your mother yet?' and I say, 'No, sir, not yet.'"
ARI FLEISCHER,
White House press secretary, interviewed by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show

"There's one person who outranks me as [Nixon's] worst enemy, and that's Deep Throat."

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JOHN DEAN,
Nixon White House counsel, on his new book that he says will identify Deep Throat

"We have to give Tom Ridge a real job."
JANE HARMAN,
U.S. Congresswoman, who wants to expand the Office of Homeland Security

"You people have been missing how things are, for very long. I'm obtaining your attention in the only way I can."
SOMEONE WHO CARES,
anonymous author of notes left with pipe bombs found in Midwestern mailboxes

"This is my chance to fight, and I can't do it from that cement room with thousands of pages I can't read."
ROBERT BLAKE,
charged with killing his wife, at a hearing in which he unsuccessfully sought bail, arguing that his dyslexia requires that legal documents be read to him

Sources: AP, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, AP (2)