* “China is not a nation where public anger collectively seeks to topple the existing order. It is time to debunk this ludicrous lie.”–The Global Times, a tabloid linked to the Communist Party of China.
* “I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice.”–Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
* “(Defense Secretary) Gates’ patience with the Europeans is, understandably, just about exhausted. Two decades after the Soviet Union disintegrated and the Red Army went home, America is still carrying 75 percent of the NATO burden for the defense of Europe.”–Pat Buchanan, Creators Syndicate.
* “You remember a few years ago I was saying ‘thank you’ to the foreigners for their help; every minute we were thanking them. Now I have stopped saying that. They’re here for their own purposes, for their own goals, and they’re using our soil for that.”–Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
* “That we would build bridges in Baghdad and Kandahar and not in Baltimore and Kansas City absolutely boggles the mind.”–Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
* “Unless we get health care inflation under control by replacing the perverse fee-for-service incentive structure, there will be no money for anything else.”–David Brooks, New York Times.
* “Our goal shouldn’t be to ‘save Medicare,’ whatever that means. It should be to ensure that Americans get the health care they need, at a cost the nation can afford.”–Paul Krugman, New York Times.
* “In case there was any remaining doubt, Monday’s session underscored just how conservative the modern Republican Party has become, whether one hails from Ron Paul’s libertarian wing, Bachmann’s Tea Party caucus, or the mainstream establishment of Romney and Pawlenty.”–Carl Cannon, Real Clear Politics.
* “Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can’t be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us, so let’s stop trying to curry favor with them.”–Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
* “We just live in such a ‘What have you done for me lately?’ culture, and it’s tough when you’re trying to get credit for something that didn’t happen–we didn’t have a depression.”–Jonathan Alter, author of “The Promise: President Obama, Year One.”
* “The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict and laziness.”–Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart.
* “I’ll be looking for other ways to contribute my talents.”–Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner.
* “We are not in normal. There is nothing normal about politics right now. This is wide open.”–Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe assessing the GOP presidential candidates.
* “There are boys with little life experience running the nation’s fourth-largest state.”–Nancy Argenziano, former Republican state representative and member of the Florida Public Service Commission.
* “I don’t think it’s rocket science. There’s a way to do this and a way to do it right.”–Florida House Redistricting Chairman Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel.
* “I think the message of ‘Wonderland’ is still a good one and it’s uplifting–that you have to look at your life as a blessing and not as a lot of problems.”–Judy Lisi, president of the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts.