* “If you surveyed informed Americans, you will hear Pakistanis described as duplicitous, paranoid, self-pitying and generally infuriating. In turn, Pakistanis describe us as fickle, arrogant, shortsighted and chronically unreliable. Neither country’s caricature of the other is entirely wrong, and it makes for a relationship that is less in need of diplomacy than couples therapy, which customarily starts by trying to see things from the other point of view.”–Bill Keller, New York Times Magazine.
* “India is still the only country I know where you can find a billboard advertising ‘physics degrees.'”–Thomas Friedman, New York Times.
* “We, it turns out, are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. We’ve got a lot of it.”–President Barack Obama.
* “Wealth is not necessarily an impediment to political success. FDR, a Hudson Valley aristocrat, and JFK were men of wealth who did less to earn their money than Mitt did to earn his. But they carried it more easily.”–Patrick Buchanan, Creators Syndicate.
* “Gingrich encourages Republican voters to believe he should be nominated because he would do best in the (at most) three debates with Barack Obama. So, because Gingrich might sparkle during four and a half hours of debates, he should be given four years of control of nuclear weapons? Odd.”–George Will, Washington Post.
* “SouthVest.”–What media have dubbed Rick Santorum’s chartered campaign plane.
* “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”–Vice President Joe Biden.
* “It is important to recognize that there is a distinction between legitimate concerns about Islamic extremism and unacceptable stereotyping. We must not only expose the threat of Islamic extremism but also work to ensure Muslim-Americans feel that they are accepted as full Americans. This is not ‘political correctness’–but the American way.”–Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
* “Do we want kids walking around with 50-pound backpacks costing $50, $60, $70 and many of them being out of date? Or do we want students walking around with a mobile device that has much more content than was even imaginable a couple years ago and can be constantly updated? I think it’s a very simple choice.”–Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
* “We obviously know this is an issue for Florida that does not end today.”–Jessica Hoppe, general counsel for Genting’s Resorts World Miami, reacting to the resort casino bill that never made it out of the House committee hearing.
* “There’s never been an operation this size in Florida 10 months out from an election, not for a presidential, not for a gubernatorial.”–Ashley Walker, the Florida director for the Obama campaign’s voter mobilization effort, Organizing for America.
* “Every elected official needs to thoroughly look anywhere where their families may have investments.”–State Sen. Jim Norman.
* “More and more students want to attend UT and live on our dynamic downtown campus.”–UT President Ronald L. Vaughn commenting on breaking ground for a 523-bed dorm for a university that has grown from 4,200 to 6,700 students in a decade.