Perspectives.

"How could they have possibly made a mistake this huge?" Kathleen Treanor, who lost her 4-year-old daughter and her in-laws in the Oklahoma City bombing, on the FBI revelation that it had inadvertently withheld thousands of pages of evidence from Timothy McVeigh's lawyer. As a result, Attorney General John Ashcroft delayed the convicted murderer's execution by one month.

"I had wanted for years to get Mrs. Thatcher in front of my camera. As she got more powerful she got sort of sexier." Photographer Helmut Newton, on his eye for the former British prime minister

"I hummed a song that isn't appropriate in this chamber. I would like to apologize to everyone I might have hurt." Serge Cardin, a Canadian M.P., caught humming the theme song from "The Godfather" while Public Works Minister Alfonso Gagliano, who is of Italian descent, addressed the body

"The administration has told us to take a flying leap in a rolling doughnut." California Energy Adviser , Davie Freeman on the White House's hands-off approach to the state's ongoing energy crisis

"All these books are written in the same way, whether they are homo, bisexual or straight." French author Jean-Jacques Pauvert, declaring in his latest anthology, "From Infinity to Zero," that too much sex--in advertising, in the media and on the Internet--is killing contemporary French erotic writing

"Your Honor, let's be honest here. A woman should not be disposed to this matter. This should be between the male persons of the world." Eugene Holmes, of Cherryville, North Carolina, asking the judge to replace the female public defender representing him against charges of selling counterfeit flea-market merchandise. The ...