"It's not gold. It's something we call fool's gold."

"It's not gold. It's something we call fool's gold."
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.
On a Medicare prescription drug bill being considered in the Senate.
"It's very easy to be negative. This bill's not perfect. But it's very, very good."
Sen. Max Baucus
The Montana Democrat who is one of the chief authors of the Medicare measure.
"They're trying to break our will. They're trying to seize the headlines...but they're militarily insignificant."
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt
The U.S. military deputy director for operations in Iraq, on guerrillas who fired rockets from wooden donkey carts Friday at the Oil Ministry and two hotels in Baghdad.