Quotations of the day

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Quotations of the day

By The Associated Press

"He's forgetting what his own positions are, and he's betting that you will too. We've got to name this condition that he's going through. I think it's called Romnesia." - President Barack Obama on Republican rival Mitt Romney, who countered by calling the moniker "silly word games."

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"I believe everybody has a purpose on this earth. I think this Sunday Jake will define his purpose, and that's to make Kateri a saint." - Elsa Finkbonner, whose son Jake was cured from a near-fatal infection in 2006, leading to the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Native American.

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"The Scouts have got to expose, list and severely punish every former employee or volunteer who ignored or concealed child sex crimes. Nothing will have a quicker and more long-lasting impact of changing the culture of recklessness and secrecy." - David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, after the release of documents showing the Boy Scouts of America's cover-up of decades of sexual abuse.

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