"This isn't just what the United States can talk about with the Israelis and the Palestinians. How about some of the ideas that were there in the Arab initiative?"

"This isn't just what the United States can talk about with the Israelis and the Palestinians. How about some of the ideas that were there in the Arab initiative?"
Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of State, on the Mideast peace process, referring specifically to a dormant 2002 Arab peace proposal that would have offered wide Arab diplomatic recognition of Israel in exchange for Israel's retreat to its borders before the 1967 Mideast War.
"It's kind of a point of pride you might say for a lot of climbers -- that you can take care of yourself out there."
Mountain climber Trevor Liston
Recently rescued from Mount Hood in Oregon, on criticism that climbers on Mount Hood during the winter end up endangering the lives of their rescuers.