International Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)

"Say hasta la vista, Gray Davis."

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, after announcing he would run for governor of California in the upcoming recall election

"We're starving. We're eating food that humans should not be eating."

Monrovia resident Athanasius Carr, on the diet of some Liberians who have resorted to eating leaves and swamp snails

"That view was wrong in 1963 in Birmingham, and it is wrong in Baghdad in 2003."

U.S. national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice, on the argument that Iraqis are not culturally ready for freedom, just as blacks in the American South supposedly were not ready for equal rights in the '60s

"I don't think there is even a sanatorium in Russia that would compare to this." Chechen Ayrat Vakhitov, a released Guantanamo Bay detainee, comparing the often decried conditions there with worse ones in Russia