Quotes of the Week - July 1, 2008:
"What is so special is that you spend 27 years in prison, you come out and you do the thing that everyone thought was impossible to do, become president of the nation and change the way people feel agbhout Africa." -- Oprah Winfrey to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday.

"I won't lie to you and say that I always enjoy the campaigning, but when the days get a little long and I get a little frustrated, I remind myself that I have a ringside seat on American history." -- Cindy McCain, wife of US presidential candidate John McCain.

"Sixty-six pence per person in the country - less than the price of two pints of milk or a download to an iPod." -- Buckingham Palace spokesman explains the cost of the Queen to British nation.