“In 1999 or 2000, I had a conversation with Roger Clemens in which Roger told me he had taken human growth hormone.”

“I believe Andy misheard, Mr. Congressman...”

- Yankee pitcher Andy Pettitte in a sworn affidavit to the Mitchell commission looking into steroid use in baseball. And the response from Roger Clemens before a Congressional Panel hearing, February 13, 2008.

     
             
 
 
   
     
         
     

“There are some groups protecting 250 square kilometers of desert with no helicopters and no radios that work. So either give them the basic tools for protecting the population, and themselves, or have the decency to just bring them all home, because you can’t do it half way.”

- U.N. Messenger of Peace George Clooney talking about the difficulty of peacekeepers in Darfur.

   
             

 

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