“I for one did not want her relationship with me to disqualify her from applying for the position.”

- Democratic Senator Max Baucus, explaining his reasoning in submitting the name of Melodee Haines, a former staffer and girlfriend, to the post of U.S. Attorney for Montana

 

“Dangerous consequences will follow when politicans and rulers forget moral principles.”

- His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Buddhist leader of Tibet