I don't think a father is necessary to raise a healthy, happy baby.

Single mom Jodie Foster, on her baby Charles, born last week. She refused to disclose the name of the boy's biological father: "I am not going to discuss the father, the method, or anything of that nature."

There will no longer be a need to hide the hard-to-get stuffed toys under car seats or in the trunk after purchase in Canada.

Reuters reporter Viva Press in a story about how new U.S. import rules are making it easier for individuals to transport coveted Beanie Babies from Canada to the United States. The toy animals are easier to obtain north of the border, where they are not as popular with Canadian kids.

Those who committed this crime are guilty, as are those who approved of it for decades. We are all guilty.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin, at the reburial of the remains of Russia's last tsarist family. Mr. Yeltsin was referring to the 1918 Bolshevik murder and secret burial of Nicholas II and his family.

He promised he would. He didn't have to promise but he said, 'I'm going to give you more rather than less, sooner rather than later,' and henceforth from that there wasn't a peep out of him.

Liberal journalist Chris Matthews on CNBC's Hardball, complaining that President Clinton has not kept his promise to provide information about the Monica Lewinsky affair.

Certification doesn't equate with qualification.

Robert L. Woodson of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, noting that those most effective at helping others to escape addiction are often not professional counselors with advanced degrees, but ex-addicts who have turned to Christ.