鈥溌15 was put in his pocket; he was injected and he died.鈥
Tam Dalyell MP, on the decision to hold a fresh inquest for the British airman who died in 1953 during nerve-gas tests at Porton Down research centre (The Independent, London, 19 November)
鈥淒o we really want TV programmes if the only way to get them is to risk brainwashing our children with products that expose them to a life of ill health?鈥
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Debra Shipley MP, following the decision not to ban junk food ads in children鈥檚 TV shows in Britain (The Observer, London, 17 November)
鈥淚t should not be handed out like candy at these anti-aging clinics.鈥
S. Mitchell Harman, director of the Kronos Longevity Research Institute in Arizona, on the practice of giving growth hormones to older men and women (San Francisco Chronicle, 13 November)
鈥淗e holds the academic title of engineer.鈥
China鈥檚 Communist Party, announcing the election of Hu Jintao as the new party leader (15 November)
鈥淚t is his voice. But we don鈥檛 know yet whether anybody put it together, spliced, or computer-generated it.鈥
US State Department Official, on the tape in which Osama Bin Laden supposedly warns of more terror attacks (CNN, 17 November)
鈥淲e have come here for one reason鈥 because the world wants to have assurances that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.鈥
Chief UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix, on his arrival in Baghdad (The Times, London, 19 November)