* “Finality is not the language of politics.”–Benjamin Disraeli.
* “The most puzzling aspect of our dilemmas is how manageable they are. Unlike Greece and Spain, the U.S. has a fundamentally healthy economy. We have problems, but we have solutions to them.”–Fareed Zakaria, Time magazine.
* “By the way, we need to fix that.”–President Barack Obama, referring to Florida’s voting issues during his re-election speech.
* “Here’s what people should feel good about: We have a diligent and thorough process, and every vote’s getting counted.”–Florida Gov. Rick Scott.
* “This is the 21st century in the greatest country on Earth and people have to stand in line for eight hours to vote? This is wrong, and it is time for a bipartisan solution.”–Pam Iorio, former Tampa mayor and Hillsborough County supervisor of elections.
* “Obama won the most where the lines were the longest.”–Former state Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach.
* “This is not a third-world country.”–Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez.
* “If they were self-aware at all, Mitt Romney would be president right now. … Their whole belief system…is inherently insulting to everyone outside the tent–and you can’t win votes when you’re calling people lazy, stoned moochers.”–Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone.
* “The Republican Party … is endangered by tardiness in recognizing that demography is destiny.”–George Will, Washington Post.
* “In essence you now have to run two elections. You’ve got to be just as aggressive and just as focused on the early and absentee votes as you are in the Election Day turnout.”–Mayor Bob Buckhorn.
* “America’s population growth has stalled, and our social welfare burden is escalating as fewer workers support more retirees. The only way to save safety-net programs and escape a crushing debt burden is to have a pipeline of hardworking, talented immigrants.–Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.
* “Two-thirds of our voters were not born here, so Florida’s politics have been imported from every other region of the country plus Latin America. … You have every point of view represented.”–Susan McManus, USF political scientist.