*”We won’t be demanding what you should do or shouldn’t do. We want to participate. We want to contribute. We want to be part of this.”–Recently inaugurated Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto indicating he hopes to help President Obama pass a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration policy.
* “What is the single biggest problem with the tax code? It’s not the complexity, bad as that is. The biggest problem is that it rewards consumption and punishes savings and investment. … Most economists vastly prefer consumption taxes to income taxes. … We have to have a consumption tax if we want to both grow the economy and reduce debt.”–David Brooks, New York Times.
* “Come on, that’s such a canard, you know that. “The Greatest Generation? That was the biggest publishing hoax of all. It’s to sell books.”–Oliver Stone.
* “SoPo.”–The ironic, self-deprecating, post-Sandy reference to “South of Power” coined by residents of Lower Manhattan
* “If you laugh, think and cry (every day), that’s a full day.”–The late Jim Valvano.
* “We all know this law would never have gotten through Congress if it had been sold as a new $4 billion tax on the American people.”–Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on the federal health care law.
* “The Affordable Care Act is going to mean as much to Florida as any place in the country. If we try to support the retiree community of America off our dime, Florida would be a completely different state fiscally and many other ways.”–Former Florida Governor and Senator Bob Graham.
* “The question is how do we take what is the Obama coalition and translate that to a Democratic coalition that outlasts Obama”–Outgoing Florida Democratic Party Chairman Rod Smith.
* “It’s clear to us, especially when we look around at some other situations, that we have to end up in the perfect spot. We need to be pitch perfect.”–Tampa Bay Rays’ owner Stu Sternberg on new stadium scenarios.
* “Now is our time. This is our opportunity. Let’s go get it done.”–Mayor Bob Buckhorn on the implications of the recently released draft of the InVision Tampa City Center Plan.