Noted & quoted.

• Position: SOUNDBITES

'It is time to get rid of this horrible mummy.'

--Valeriya Novodvorskaya, head of the Democratic Union, a Russian political party, on Lenin's remains, which have been on display in a mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square for the past eight decades.

(The New York Times, Oct. 5)

'There's nothing worse than seeing someone ... on the phone or shaving or putting on makeup, and there's a child in the backseat.'

--A Connecticut Assemblyman on his state's ban on cell phones and distracting behavior while driving. (The New York Times, Oct. 1)

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