* “I believe we are witnessing the Middle East’s equivalent of Berlin in 1989.”–Scott MacLeod, managing editor, Cairo Review of Global Affairs, and professor at the American University in Cairo.
* “(The election of) 2010 was just the beginning. We haven’t accomplished anything yet. We can’t do anything without the Senate and the White House.”–Fla. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio.
* “The current state of the tax code is simply indefensible. It is hemorrhaging revenue.”–Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D.
* “Truth is, so-called or codified national patriotic songs like “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the sports menu aren’t about patriotism as much as they are about commercialism and public relations.”–Kevin Blackistone, FanHouse.com.
* “The Internet is a Petri dish of opinion inflation, breeding commentary like bacteria.”–Stephen Randall, deputy editor, Playboy.
* “The truth is no one in public life cares for the humanities as an academic enterprise, although public officials most likely do care for books, movies, operas and TV, and like to think of themselves as crackerbarrel philosophers and historians.”–Silvio Gaggi, director, University of South Florida Humanities Institute.
* “We suspect we have issues with (water) meter readers who estimated and estimated and estimated for multiple months.”–Mayor Pam Iorio.