Quotables

"Newdow's alleged injury remains somewhat tenuous."

U.S. District Judge John Bates, rejecting atheist Michael Newdow's request for an injunction against prayers at President Bush's inauguration.

"An amusement park for rats."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Sussman, describing to jurors last week the allegedly unsanitary condition of a LaGrou Distribution System Inc. warehouse that supplied meat to stores and restaurants throughout the Chicago area.

"I like him the way he is."

Melania Knauss, wife-to-be of Donald Trump, on whether she would try to change his hair style.

"Obviously the baby was born by Caesarean section."

Rita Leal, director of the Albert Sabin Maternity Hospital in Salvador, Brazil, after a patient last week gave birth to a boy weighing 16.7 pounds. Both the mother, Francisca Ramos dos Santos, and the baby, Ademilton, were healthy. A typical Brazilian newborn boy weighs 7.7 pounds.

"It makes you much more likable."

Simon Cowell, British judge on Fox television's American Idol, on the British view of the recent American distaste for France. "We have hated the French for years," he said.