DISPATCHES | Issue: "Face-off" August 13, 2011
Quotables

Associated Press/Photo by Louis Lanzano
"This is the most humble day of my life."

Rupert Murdoch, facing questioning before members of Parliament on July 19 in a widening scandal over illegal phone hacking that has resulted in the arrest of numerous employees, including Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, which runs the British newspaper operations of Murdoch's News Corp.
"It is time to get back to football. That's what everybody here wants to do."

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell on a July 25 agreement between NFL owners and the NFL Players Association that ended a 136-day lockout.
"I decided I wasn't going to just be a provider, I was going to be an activist."

Abortionist Leroy Carhart on the "tenacity" he feels for performing late-term abortions and training other doctors to do so.



