Verbatim

"Our job is not to compensate for the failure of government to do its job."

--The Rev. Albert Pennybacker of the National Council of Churches, on President Clinton's plea that every church provide a job to one person on welfare

"We have a very complex international market system...There is no way you can talk down or talk up prices or interest rates."

--Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, seeking to discount his own effect on global markets

"The Holocaust has become a fad. Books and films on it are doing so well. It became commercialized, cheap."

--Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel, in the New York Times

"The kids get ready for school like they always do, and you throw them into the boat."

--Talbert Boop of Hatfield, Indiana, on the flooding that has isolated his family's home