"To set the record straight, none of it is true." — Teen pop star Justin Bieber to NBC's "Today" show Friday on allegations that he fathered a child in a backstage bathroom after a California woman filed a paternity suit against him earlier this week.
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"It's too little, too late. Consumers are waking up and seeing that they have options." — Kristen Christian, 27, a small business owner in Los Angeles who started "Bank Transfer Day," which is encouraging people on Saturday to close accounts at big banks and put their money in credit unions.
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"I will get stronger. I will return." — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the memoir "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope," in which she says her goal is to get back to Congress after she was critically wounded by a gunman in January outside a Tucson, Ariz., grocery store.