Quotations of the day  "I saw my son defending me and saying,
`That's not true. What you're saying about my dad is not true.'
That's when I knew I had to tell him." - Disgraced cyclist Lance
Armstrong in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, referring to
13-year-old Luke, about his years of covering up his use of
performance-enhancing drugs.   "The United States does not
negotiate with terrorists." - State Department spokeswoman
Victoria Nuland in response to an offer by the al-Qaida-linked
Masked Brigade to trade two American hostages in Algeria for two
terrorists behind bars in the U.S., including the mastermind of
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.   "I wasn't faking it. I
wasn't part of this. When they hear the facts they'll know.
They'll know there is no way I could be a part of this." - Notre
Dame linebacker Manti Te'o in an interview with ESPN,
maintaining he was never involved in creating the dead-
girlfriend hoax.  The Associated Press