"You've got to force him out of his comfort area and I don't think we did that consistently."

"Kobe Bryant is a monster who is extremely difficult to defend. They get so much confidence from having him out there."

"Very, very surprised. We had had a 45-minute conversation, and we talked about a lot of things. So I apologized to Billy, and that's the end of the story."

"It's pretty obvious to me our confidence is shot a little bit and we're just going to have to work our way through it. We've got guys who are missing shots they can make."

"We ended up getting a ton of mediocre shots. The longer we did that, the more they got confidence that they could stay in the game. Then we got ourselves in a hole that we had a tough time digging ourselves out of. We got three shots at the end, but we never should have been in that situation."

"I thought we were better on defense tonight; it gave us confidence,"

"We have lost a little bit of confidence and the Spurs are not a good team to try to get your confidence back because they are a great basketball team."

"India has reduced its dependence on Iranian oil. I know their refineries have stopped asking for orders to purchase Iranian oil."

"We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics."

"I happen to have given lots of free speeches."

"There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine."

"Now, I know there are many Americans who say, 'Get out of Afghanistan. Bring 'em all home.' And there are others who say, 'Put in hundreds of thousands of more.'"

"I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me."

"I want to make a difference."

"Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States."

"Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified."

"American politics is always an open competition."

"Kobe's got such confidence in shooting the ball. He's got the ability to drive and the ability to shoot over the top of you as he falls away. He's certainly one of the toughest guys to defend around the league."

"There was a recipe for disaster not having Jason Richardson out, getting in at 4 a.m. and playing a back-to-back. But the guys hung in there and gave us a chance. We battled hard."

"The doctors say he's OK to go, the trainer says he's OK to go and he says he's OK to go. You don't put a guy out there with a restriction."

"The experience of, for anybody, being a head coach, having to make the decisions, I just think it helps your understanding of the whole process. Just confidence and making his own decisions and being in charge, I think it helps everybody."

"There's no excuse for playing that poorly in the first half, ... But it is two halves."

"You've got to admire his courage. He wasn't getting any lift off the ankle early and kept coming up short. You knew he was hurting but he didn't want to come out and let it stiffen."

"We battled back from 20 points down. The guys were hustling, working and playing together. They had some energy. The game was right there. All we had to do was finish it and we didn't finish it."

"He's a little more relaxed (this season), I think. I think he feels like he can give us energy off the bench. And obviously, if he shoots the ball, that's a bonus. He's a good defender. We'd like him to rebound a little bit more, but he's helping us a lot right now."

"But they're really taking individual challenges personally. We've had some crummy shooting nights, yet you look up and we're in the game with a chance to win. And that's what defense will do for you."

"This is the first time in recent history that the governor has declared a state of emergency because of fire conditions across the state. Any even though the conditions are not as severe as what we've seen up in north Texas, they are affecting us."

"We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist."

"I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child."

"I think every election is sui generis. I think it starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping, and it proceeds from there. And it is always about the future."

"You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?"

"I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that."

"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends."

"I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was."

"I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience."

"I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst."

"I believe in a zone of privacy."

"My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before."

"I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute."

"You have to be true to yourself."

"I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done."

"The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not."

"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair."

"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."

"I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver."

"In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change."

"My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times."

"Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly."

"Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest."

"If a country doesn't recognize minority rights and human rights, including women's rights, you will not have the kind of stability and prosperity that is possible."