“We in Kyrgyzstan do not need anybody else’s base. We have always advocated a union with

“We in Kyrgyzstan do not need anybody else’s base. We have always advocated a union with Russia.”

Ishak Masaliyev

Communist deputy, on why his country is closing U.S.-owned Manas air base there. It is a transit point for 15,000 troops and 500 tons of cargo each month to and from Afghanistan.

“I had just finished telling them about our intervention hotline that we have — suicide prevention on the fifth floor — and all of a sudden I heard this pop, a loud pop, it almost sounded like a firecracker.”

Mike Nason

A spokesman for televangelist Robert H. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral, on a man who shot and killed himself in front of a cross in the church.