"I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry."

"I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry."
Hwang Woo-suk
Disgraced Korean researcher, who made fraudulent claims of human stem cell breakthroughs.
"This can only be resolved by peaceful means. Nobody is talking about invading Iran."
Jack Straw
British Foreign Secretary, on negotiations with Iran over its nuclear energy program.
"If we are not able to buy out people, it will be difficult to redesign the city."
Doug Meffert
Co-chairman of a sustainability subcommittee in New Orleans, on creating a government-funded reconstruction entity to buy out land and properties to try to rebuild the city.