Perspectives.(quotations)(Brief Article)

"[This] is a victory for all of Africa..." Senegal Lions player Papa Bouba Diop, whose game-winning goal resulted in Senegal's unexpected upset against France in the World Cup last week

"Very good, the guy memorizes four words, and he plays like he's intercontinental." U.S. President George W. Bush, mocking an American reporter for asking French President Jacques Chirac a question in French at a press conference in Paris last week

"Adam's birth rekindles the joy, love and humanity that Danny radiated wherever he went." Mariane Pearl, wife of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, on the son she gave birth to on Tuesday. Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in January by Muslim militants in Pakistan and subsequently murdered.

"I was afraid of how God would look on me if I came for impure reasons." Arrested Palestinian Tawriya Hamamra, after she backed out of a suicide bombing planned for Jerusalem

"This isn't a whitewash. We're going to deal with the scandals and how you govern in the midst of it all... the politics of personal destruction." University of Arkansas political-science professor Margaret Scranton, on the new class she will be teaching on the Clinton presidency next ...