"There has been a security lapse."

"There has been a security lapse."
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
Information minister, on a second unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
"Even a foot or two feet of this will knock you down."
Fire Marshall Peter Brierty
On a mudslide that swept over a Greek Orthodox youth camp in San Bernardino County, Calif.
"It's a bit disappointing, but it's not the end of the world. Please don't go away from here believing we've lost the spacecraft."
Colin Pillinger
Of the Beagle 2 project on scientists' inability to pick up a signal from their tiny Mars lander.