Quotations of the day

"I got a phone call from her screaming, `Help! Help! I can’t breathe. My house is on top of me!’" _ Tiffany Thronesberry, who heard from her mother, Barbara Jarrell, shortly after a tornado roared through Oklahoma City’s suburbs.

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"It’s a tough balance. With a scandal, there’s no way to win. There may never have been any wrongdoing by anyone in the White House, on any of these issues, but once the allegations are made, you can’t win." _ Sara Taylor Fagen, White House political director for President George W. Bush, on the IRS scandal enveloping the Obama administration.

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"There was no keyboard player on the planet more appropriate to support Jim Morrison’s words. Ray, I felt totally in sync with you musically. It was like we were of one mind, holding down the foundation for Robby and Jim to float on top of. I will miss my musical brother." _ John Densmore, drummer for the 1960s rock group The Doors, after the death of founding member Ray Manzarek.