Perspectives

"I expect a great reward in heaven." Paul Hill, a former minister convicted of killing an abortion doctor and his bodyguard, a day before his execution by lethal injection in Florida last week

"America is dumb; it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you." Actor Johnny Depp, telling the German magazine Stern why he lives in France. He has since said the quote was taken out of context and that he loves the United States.

"I feel sad, which is not a typical emotion for me." Martha Stewart, on the fraud and obstruction of justice charges she faces

"This guy owes me bacon now." Film star and California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, on getting hit with an egg as he arrived to campaign at a college campus

"No one would ever see me like that. My husband doesn't ever see me like that." Montana Gov. Judy Martz, on a state-history mural that features a nude dancer some say resembles her

"We defeated the Flintstones." Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, on the status of Iraq's military

"He apparently didn't know what he had." Janesville, Wis., correctional officer Thomas Roth, on a 40-year-old man who was tracked by the $2,500 Global Positioning System device he stole

"Why you are building the wall in my land? Build it in your land." A 73-year-old Palestinian, one of 4,500 farmers who have been separated from their crops by a security fence, which was built by Israel to guard against suicide bombers

"This is seriously something I thought about since I was a little girl. I cannot believe this just, like, freakin' happened! I'm, like, on a very major high right now. I feel very cool!" Pop princess Britney Spears, on sharing an open-mouth kiss with Madonna at the MTV Video Music Awards

"We should be building a nation of strong black leaders, not a nation of superenergized, drunk pimps." Rev. Paul Scott, founder of the Messianic Afrikan Nation in Durham, N.C., on the launch of rapper Nelly's new nonalcoholic energy drink, Pimp Juice

"We're really trying to upgrade our talent." Renaldo Agostino, marketing manager for three strip clubs in Windsor, Ontario, on the clubs' promotion to help pay the tuition of strippers who are enrolled at the University of Windsor

"The notion that gay men have a superior fashion sense is not true, and it's damaging... It's perfectly possible to enjoy that show and say, 'Look at those clever homosexuals--what they do with hair!' And not support gays at all." Openly gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, on why he finds "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" offensive