“We know each other, and we have developed, I think, a very close friendship — something

“We know each other, and we have developed, I think, a very close friendship — something like a reunion of one family.”

The Dalai Lama

Speaking of President Bush. The Dalai met with Bush in the White House on Tuesday and received the Congressional Medal of Honor on Wednesday.

“It means I can say we are back to the international community, that all the problems we have faced in the past are now behind us.”

Giadalla Ettalhi

Libya’s U.N. ambassador, on that nation’s election to a seat on the U.N. Security Council. The Bush administration didn’t lobby against the vote for Libya, which it once condemned as a sponsor of terrorism.