Perspectives.

"The price of this crisis will be a lot of blood." Palestinian legislator Qadoura Fares, on the crisis within the Palestinian leadership triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas

"We have the formula here for success." U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, referring to the establishment of order in Iraq, in an address last week to the Fourth Infantry Division in Tikrit

"I don't give a damn about Rumsfeld. All I give a damn about is going home." An unidentified U.S. soldier, reacting to Rumsfeld's speech

"This paranoid nation and the United States now are facing what I believe to be the greatest threat in the world to regional and global peace." Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, commenting on the current standoff between the United States and North Korea over the Asian country's nuclear program

"What I was saying was that, compared to Europe, America is a very young country and we are still growing as a nation." Actor Johnny Depp, clarifying comments attributed to him by the German magazine Stern, which quoted him saying the United States was like "a dumb ...