“Trying to figure out North Korea politics ... is like playing with a Ouija board.”

“Trying to figure out North Korea politics ... is like playing with a Ouija board.”

Dr. Michael G. Kulma

Of the Asia Society in New York, on speculation that North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is gravely ill.

“The water is bringing us the bodies.”

Jules Jean-Baptiste Jeudy

A cemetery director in Haiti, which has been hit by four tropical storms in less than a month.

“You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still going to stink after eight years.”

Democrat Barack Obama

On his Republican rival John McCain’s pledge to change Washington.