Quotables

"To support the candidate that I believe has the most faith."

Actor and Christian Stephen Baldwin, brother of actor and outspoken liberal activist Alec Baldwin, on why he attended the Republican National Convention.

"We had some wardrobe malfunctions."

Jenna Bush, daughter of President Bush, on the negative reaction of her grandmother (and former first lady) Barbara Bush to some of the outfits she wanted to wear on the campaign trail.

"A perpetual committee listening to a perpetual focus group."

Democratic strategist James Carville's description of the Kerry campaign.

"Avoiding confrontation is not a response."

Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, on the idea that terrorists will not target nations that oppose U.S. policy in Iraq, after Iraqi militants seized two French journalists. The militants demanded that France repeal a law that bans the wearing of Islamic head scarves in schools.

"If you use women's perfume, you are in trouble."

Al-Qaeda advice to operatives in the West, discovered on the hard drive of a computer found in Afghanistan and once used by Osama bin Laden.