“I do not like these arrangements and find it distasteful and difficult to recommend to you

“I do not like these arrangements and find it distasteful and difficult to recommend to you that we must proceed with them.”

Edward M. Liddy

Chairman and CEO of American International Group Inc., writing to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner about more than $200 million in bonuses that he is contracually obliged to pay to AIG employees.

“Jesus could have been walking with Moses that day and I would have killed them.”

Scott Johnson, 38

Of Kingsford, Mich., on the randomness of his killings. He awaits a mandatory life prison sentence on May 21 for gunning down three teenage swimmers last summer on the Wisconsin-Michigan border.

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