Perspectives Newsweek Updated: 5:58 PM ET Aug 21, 2007

"They have lost their only child due to Lane Garrison's recklessness." Paul R. Kiesel, attorney for the family of a teenager killed in an auto accident while riding with Garrison, former star of television's "Prison Break." Garrison faces more than six years in prison.

"I've certainly not reached a decision about that." Gen. David Petraeus, on whether the 21,500 American soldiers deployed to Iraq as a security reinforcement would remain there until early 2008

"I have been trying to hold down the rhetoric and try to deal with this on a factual and analytical basis, and his letter was volcanic." Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, on a published letter by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in which he referred to the controversial ouster of eight federal prosecutors as an "overblown personnel matter"