* “The idea that the Iranian authorities could not have protected our embassy or that this assault could have taken place without some degree of regime consent is fanciful.”–British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
* “We do not allow Iran to use us against others that Iran has problems with, and we do not allow others to use us against Iran.”–Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
* “It was easy to be European when it didn’t cost anything. When sacrifices are necessary, the European identity dissolves away.”–David Brooks, New York Times.
* “The central banks of the world have resolved that there will not be a liquidity shortage.”–David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer of Cumberland Advisors.
* “Government’s general posture should be standing up for capitalism rather than for well-connected capitalists.”–Lawrence Summers, former Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and former economic advisor to President Barack Obama.
* “There have been repeated fines and malfeasance at literally all the investment banks, but it doesn’t seem to affect their behavior much. So, I have to conclude it is part of strategy as simple cost/benefit analysis, that fines and legal costs are a small price to pay for the profits.”–Former Goldman Sachs technology analyst Richard Kramer.
* “Think back to 2000. Many Democrats and journalists alike, feeling grouchy, were dismissive of Al Gore and magnified his shortcomings. We forgot the context, prided ourselves on our disdainful superiority–and won eight years of George Bush.”–Nicholas Kristof, New York Times.
* “We should distinguish carefully skepticism about big government from contempt for all government.”–Mitch Daniels, Republican governor of Indiana and former preferred presidential candidate of the GOP establishment.
* “Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there. And I don’t this country can endure much more of it without profound, lasting damage.”–Frank Bruni, New York Times.
* “I don’t claim to be the perfect candidate. I just claim to be a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney and a lot more electable than anybody else.”–Newt Gingrich.
* “Gingrich has a self-regard so immense that it rivals Obama’s–but unlike Obama’s, is untamed by self-discipline.”–Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post.
* “I apologize to anybody who came to this city to ride the high speed rail project. I killed that.”–Gov. Rick Scott at the Republican Governors Association gathering in Orlando.
* “We are in a time machine which has now delivered us back to the 1960s.”–Former Gov. Bob Graham in rebuking Florida’s 2011 Legislature for its water and land conservation reversals.
* “(U.S. Rep. Connie) Mack is well versed in throwing his name around, relying more on his family’s history than his lackluster record in Tallahassee and Washington or his vast professional experience planning parties for Hooters.”–Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Scott Arceneaux
* “Sports is very high profile, and if the S.E.C. can find something here that was done illegally, then that will send a message to communities similarly situated.”–Jordan Kobritz, assistant professor of sports management at Eastern New Mexico University, on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s subpoena of the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County seeking details about what due diligence they did before agreeing to issue nearly $500 million in bonds to pay for the Florida Marlins new stadium and adjoining parking lots.
* “They all tell a story about this rebranding of St. Petersburg. They all engage the community, and they’re all pieces of art.”–St. Petersburg Mayor Bill
Foster in assessing the three finalists’ designs for replacing the city’s iconic downtown Pier.
* “The city’s parks are for everyone. Nobody is going to occupy them.”–Mayor Bob Buckhorn.
* “I have never met a man who cared so much about the human race. There will not be another Freddie (Solomon).”–Former San Francisco 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo.