鈥淚 have a difficult time accepting political rhetoric that attempts to draw moral equivalency between science and the murder of millions of people.鈥�
US Senator Adam Kline, responding to Senator Alex Deccio, who compared stem cell research to the Holocaust and genocide in Africa (Seattle Post Intelligencer, 9 April)
鈥淚鈥檓 23 years old and I鈥檓 in bed most days.鈥�
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Lakeside, California, resident Shannon Scott, who received silicone-gel breast implants in 2002 and developed excruciatingly painful scar tissue. Scott will speak against the surgery at a US Food and Drug Administration debate on whether to remove restrictions on such implants (MSNBC.com, 7 April)
鈥淲e have a right to decide what is right for our bodies.鈥�
Virginia Silverman of Orange county, California, speaking in favour of the implants at the FDA debate. Silverman had saline implants after breast cancer surgery, but had them replaced with silicone-gel implants, which she finds more comfortable (MSNBC.com, 11 April)
鈥淭here was no risk in his eyes. He wanted his children to be protected.鈥�
Jonathan Salk, youngest son of Jonas Salk, on taking part in the first mass trial of the polio vaccine. He was speaking at the preview of an exhibition celebrating 50 years of the vaccine (San Francisco Chronicle, 12 April)
鈥淗opefully somebody has it tucked away in a box in the corner of their garage.鈥�
Intel spokesman Howard High on the company鈥檚 request on eBay.com for an original copy of the 19 April 1965 issue of Electronics magazine, in which Intel鈥檚 founder, Gordon Moore, made his famous forecast that computer chip performance would double every two years. Intel has lost its copy of the magazine (Reuters, 11 April)