“This is not about us battling the torchbearers. This is about the Chinese government using

“This is not about us battling the torchbearers. This is about the Chinese government using the torch for political purposes. And we’re going to use it right back.”

Lhadom Tethong

Executive director of Students for a Free Tibet, speaking to a crowd in San Francisco prior protests against the Beijing Olympics.

“We need to put continuous and increasing pressure on the Iraqis to settle their political differences, to pay for their own reconstruction with their oil windfalls, and to take the lead in conducting military operations.”

Sen. Carl Levin

Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.