"We're hard at work, and I think we are getting closer. But our basic principles remain the same.

"We're hard at work, and I think we are getting closer. But our basic principles remain the same. Clear indictment of Saddam Hussein's past behavior and current behavior has to be in the resolution ... [any] there has to be a very tough inspection regime."
Secretary of State Colin Powell
About efforts at the United Nations to get a resolution passed against Iraq. Several permanent members of the Security Council are balking at the U.S.' either-or stance.
"It's not easy being an accountant today. It's taken a lot of heat off the lawyers."
Comedian Bob Newhart, 73
As he accepted the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.