鈥淭he Bush administration is busy scouring the American landscape for more places to set up oil rigs when we should be investing in renewable energy and working to protect special places.鈥�
Sierra Club lobbyist Melinda Pierce (The New York Times, 18 January)
鈥淲e tell them if you leave the country, there鈥檚 a risk you can鈥檛 get back in.鈥�
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Candelaria Zapata of the National Institutes of Health on how the US security clampdown is affecting its scientists from abroad (The Wall Street Journal, 20 January)
鈥淲hat鈥檚 going to be a struggle is convincing people in security that a lot of what was written about me is not true, and what is true, I鈥檓 sorry about.鈥�
Hacker Kevin Metnick, back online after a five-year ban on using computers (Reuters, 19 January)
鈥淸Boffins] conjures up images of weird old men in flapping lab coats, pouring strange chemicals into test tubes. Just call them scientists.鈥�
Chris Fell of the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies, who is campaigning against the word 鈥渂offin鈥� (Sydney Morning Herald, 21 January)
鈥淚 saw a tentacle through a porthole. It was thicker than my leg鈥� I don鈥檛 know what we鈥檇 have done if it hadn鈥檛 let go. We weren鈥檛 going to attack it with our penknives.鈥�
Round-the-world yachtsman Olivier De Kersauson on the 8-metre-long squid that grabbed his boat鈥檚 rudder in the Atlantic (BBC Online, 15 January)