* “Netanyahu forfeited September elections that would have given him four more years in power. He chose instead to form a national coalition that guarantees 18 months of stability–18 months during which, even if the world does not stop Iran, Israel will.”–Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post.
* “If the European Central Bank does not abandon its destructive obsession with austerity, Greece will have few options but to leave the euro zone.”–Arianna Huffington.
* “Women and independents want some reassurance that Republicans give a damn about someone other than Republican primary voters.”–Michael Gerson, Washington Post.
* “Over the last three decades, we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society. A market economy is a tool–a valuable and effective tool–for organizing productive activity. But a ‘market society’ is a place where everything is up for sale. It is a way of life where market values govern every sphere of life.”–Michael Sandel, author of “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets.”
* “Just because technology gives you the ability to do something, does that mean that you should? Not always.”–NBC Broadcasting Chairman Ted Harbert on the new DVRs that automatically skip commercials.
* “Wall Street executives who make $14 million are not risk managers. They are risk takers–big ones. … Safer banking means lower profits, which means smaller compensation packages. That is precisely what JPMorgan’s London traders were trying to avoid.”–Joe Nocera, New York Times.
* “A bipartisan consensus is congealing: Certain student borrowers–and eventually all student borrowers–should be entitled to loans at a subsidized 3.4 percent interest rate forever.”–George Will, Washington Post.
* “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law. The NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people.”–NCAAP President Benjamin Todd Jealous.
* “The (Catholic) church would be wiser to take the path laid out for us by (President John) Kennedy than the path laid out for us by Santorum.”–Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
* “Maybe it’s time to stop and take a look at how the state assesses students.”–Pinellas County Schools Superintendent John Stewart.
* “In my experience, the for-profit test scoring industry could produce results on demand. There was no statistic that couldn’t be doctored, no number that couldn’t be fudged, no figure that couldn’t be bent to our collective will.”–Todd Farley, author of “Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry.”
* “From what I was told before I moved over here and since I got here seeing it for myself, I’m like, wow, Hillsborough County really is the wild, wild west.”–New Chamberlain High School football coach D.J. Mayo on Hillsborough County’s reputation for sports-related, student transfers.