* “Homeland security begins with hometown security.”–Janet Nepolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
* “Republicans may still win control of both Houses of Congress in November, but to win back the White House in 2012, the Electoral College math is against the GOP if it can’t do much better among Hispanics.”–Edward Schumacher-Matos, Washington Post.
* “Obama is brilliant and cares, but personnel is policy. He picked the wrong people.”–Arianna Huffington.
* “As far as Southern accent and Mississippi, the country may be looking for the anti-Obama in 2012. Don’t know. Could be.”–Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on the possibility of being a presidential candidate.
* “There’s class warfare, all right. But it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”–Warren Buffet.
* “We are no longer the nation that used to amaze the world with its visionary projects. We have become, instead, a nation whose politicians seem to compete over who can show the least vision, the least concern about the future and the greatest willingness to pander to short-term, narrow-minded selfishness.”–Paul Krugman, New York Times.
* “I think it would be disastrous for the state if DCA (Department of Community Affairs) were abolished. Most growth management issues today affect more than one local government.”–DCA Secretary Tom Pelham.
* “My whole background is in business. You run the state like you run your business.”–Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott.
* “I don’t think the people of Florida want you to run the state of Florida the way that you ran your business.”–Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink.
* “People are so tired of the negatives. In a complicated race, all you can talk about is what you’re going to do.”–Ed Turanchik, who recently joined the ever-expanding field of Tampa mayoral candidates.
* “It may not get as much attention as rail, but they (Charlotte, N.C.) took a very anemic, underfunded bus system, and they turned it into a modern, 21st century bus system. And that’s what we intend to do.”–Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio.