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NDP MP Pat Martin and puppet Toxic Timmy at a news conference in Ottawa, March 1, 2007. Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press

• Liberal spokeswoman Leslie Swartman on a Liberal MPs private member's motion: "This is not the position of the Liberal Party of Canada or the Liberal caucus or Mr. Dion," said Swartman. "We support the Canadian Human Rights Act and will not entertain changes to it such as this."

• NDP MP Pat Martin: "I'm also turning down invitations to meet with Robin Sears and Mulroney's people, who are hounding us aggressively wanting to lobby us behind the scenes."

• General Rick Hillier: "I was on the beach in the Dominican Republic. I had a little break, and I heard about that, and, can I say this without everybody beating up on me across Canada? I was on my third rum and Coke, and I really didn't give a damn."

• Senator Hillary Clinton: "It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush."

• Republican Mike Huckabee on Republican Mitt Romney: "Here's a man who didn't hit political puberty in conservative circles until he was 60 years old."

File Photo: NDP MP Pat Martin and puppet Toxic Timmy at a news conference in Ottawa, March 1, 2007. By Tom Hanson/The Canadian Press
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