* “With unemployment above 10 percent, the public is angry about last year’s financial crunch – and looking for people to blame. The Fed is just elitist enough, and (Chairman Ben) Bernanke is just enough of a professorial egghead, to make them targets for popular anger.” – David Ignatius, Washington Post.
* “The rule used to be, you only got one move through the turnstile – going from news to politics or the other way. Now, you’ve got people going back and forth almost simultaneously. I think (viewers) assume the Mike Huckabee Show is just preparation for the Mike Huckabee presidential campaign in 2012.” – Larry Sabato, political scientist, University of Virginia.
* “History shows that occupation by foreign armies with the intent of changing occupied societies does not work and ends up costing considerable blood and treasure.” – Col. Gian P. Gentile, who heads the Military History Program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served in Iraq as a combat battalion commander in West Baghdad.
* “The stadium is the centerpiece of everything. If we didn’t have the stadium, if we didn’t have the Glazers, we wouldn’t be here.” – Paul Catoe, president and chief executive of Tampa Bay & Co., commenting on Tampa’s chances of landing World Cup soccer games if the United States is awarded the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022.
* “The most important thing is winning. …That’s our goal. That’s what we trained for. We don’t train for stats, we train for wins.” – Tim Tebow, UF quarterback.