Quotations of the Day

Published: 3/21/08, 4:25 AM EDT -- --- -- -- -- (ATT home page today)
By The Associated Press

AP) - "This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years." - Bill Burton, a spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, following the disclosure that three contract employees of the State Department had looked at the candidate's passport file.
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"We cannot, I'm sure, take on another military action in Iran, and I hope no one is contemplating it. It would be a real disaster." - Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, speaking to news reporters on the night he received the first MacArthur Award for International Justice.
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"If freedom loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China and the Chinese in Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak out on human rights." - House speaker Nancy Pelosi, addressing a crowd of thousands of Tibetans in Dharmsala, India, as she arrived to meet the Dalai Lama.



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By The Associated Press
Thu Mar 20, 12:48 PM ET -- -- -- -- -- -- (Yahoo home page yesterday)

"I believe in God and everything, but he does things sometimes that make you wonder." — George Slayton, whose Piedmont, Mo., home was flooded from the heavy rain that has hit the Midwest.



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"During the last six years, the people of Afghanistan have made a bold, confident journey throwing off the burden of tyranny and winning your freedom. The process has been difficult, but the courage of the nation has been unwavering." — Vice President Dick Cheney as he stood beside Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.

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"I fully appreciate that British public opinion has been frustrated by sometimes our lack of progress." — U.S. presidential hopeful John McCain speaking in England about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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This "Quotations of the day" was the top news story on my computer screen when I powered up this morning. I clicked on it, fully expecting so see your typical "inspirational, thought-provoking, humorous, literary, and special occasion" quotes. (The "AP" was not part of the headline.)

Is this a new "service" that the AP is providing?

Has anyone else noticed this on their home pages?

I have never seen this until today. At first I thought this was a new section just on my ATT home page until I googled AP Quotations of the Day and saw that Yahoo and others have it also.

Very interesting.........