Featured Quotations --

"I said in Fayetteville that I would beat Michael Phelps in swimming before Barack Obama wins North Carolina, and I can't swim. I'm standing by that." -- The still dry Senator Lindsay Graham, Republican of South Carolina.

"I don't see problems for (Russian President Dmitry Anatolyevich) Medvedev to establish good relations with Obama, who is also handsome, young and suntanned." -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

''Obviously, a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.'' -- U.S. President Elect Barack Obama, discussing possible choices for a White House dog.