“He told me that he has never had any such candid meeting with anybody else in the

“He told me that he has never had any such candid meeting with anybody else in the world.”

Ban Ki-moon

U.N. secretary general, on his meeting with reclusive Senior Gen. Than Shwe in Myanmar.

“The Bush administration lacked real accountability in large part because Bush himself did not embrace openness.”

Scott McClellan

Former White House spokesman, in his book “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception.”

“Why don’t you learn something about the monument?”

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Presidential hopeful, when a reporter asked if she or her husband might be added to the Mount Rushmore monument one day.