“I have not heard such a big explosion in my life. We felt as if our eardrums were about to

“I have not heard such a big explosion in my life. We felt as if our eardrums were about to burst.”

Abdul Hameed

A lawyer’s assistant who was inside the Lahore High Court in Pakistan when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd, killing at least 22 people.

“The only reason I’m the front-runner now is because of the Colbert bump. If it were not for that I would not be sitting in this chair, I would be probably somewhere serving hamburgers at a drive-in restaurant.”

Mike Huckabee

Presidential candidate, to Stephen Colbert, referring to a jump in the polls Huckabee received after appearing on “The Colbert Report.”