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Heard in the news: 2.08.06


"Presidents throughout our history have authorized the warrantless surveillance of the enemy during wartime, and they have done so in ways far more sweeping than the narrowly targeted terrorist surveillance program authorized by President Bush."

- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who defended the NSA's spying program to the U.S. Senate on Monday.


"Those who have published these cartoons must be hanged to death. Islamic governments must not have any kind of connections to Denmark, and Afghanistan must throw them out."

- Aagha Zia, 35, a guard in a Kabul shopping mall, on the cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad which have incited riots worldwide.


"This is the closest we've had to royalty. Her elegance, her style, her smile. The way she walked."

- Sarai Glover, 54, of Cartersville, Ga., one of the 18,000 people who waited in the cold Saturday to pay final respects to Coretta Scott King, who died Jan. 30 at age 78.




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