"After so many years of false starts, our actions have finally matched our words ... You have given Massachusetts just what the doctor ordered."

"After so many years of false starts, our actions have finally matched our words ... You have given Massachusetts just what the doctor ordered."
Democratic U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy
In praising Gov. Mitt Romney after Massachusetts became the first state to require universal health care coverage.
"Our answer to those who are angry about Iran achieving the full nuclear fuel cycle is just one phrase. We say: Be angry at us and die of this anger. We won't hold talks with anyone about the right of the Iranian nation" to enrich uranium.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iran's hard-line president.