Notable and quotable

“As I have said many times before, very few of these problems can be solved by military means alone. And yet, from the military perspective, we can and must do better. It’s time for new leadership and fresh eyes.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates

At a Pentagon news conference announcing a leadership overhaul for the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

“His work at the Sobibor death camp was to push men, women and children into the gas chamber.”

Rabbi Marvin Hier

A founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, on retired autoworker John Demjanjuk being extradited to Germany to face trial as an accessory to the murders of Jews and others at a Nazi death camp.