* “Like Abraham Lincoln, my father did not claim that God was on his side; he prayed humbly that he was on God’s side.”–Martin Luther King III.
* “Obama is the victim of the elevated expectations he so skillfully created in 2008. He came as a Redeemer and then–tied up in W.’s Gordian knots, dragged down by an economy leeched by wars and Wall Street charlatans–didn’t redeem. And nothing bums out a nation that blows with the wind like a self-appointed messiah who disappoints. If we’re not the ones we’ve been waiting for, who are we?”–Maureen Dowd, New York Times.
* “Maybe it’s just a lack of anything better to do in the August doldrums, but the talk of replacing Vice President Joe Biden with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is beginning to reach a certain level of credibility mass among Washington political junkies…In 2008, when it became clear she wouldn’t win the Democratic nomination, her supporters–including her husband, the former president–began talking her up for the running-mate slot. They described an Obama-Clinton pairing as the ‘dream ticket.’ Clearly, the dream hasn’t died.”–Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service.
* “Cuba is a totalitarian, repressive, communist state that–unlike China–can’t lend us money.”–Stephen Colbert.
* “She’s clearly collected a lot of IOUs. The real question is what she wants to do with them.”–National Republican pollster Whit Ayres on Sarah Palin’s involvement in dozens of political races across the country.
* “President Obama could not wait to get on vacation. As soon as the plane landed, he grabbed a couple of beers and slid down the emergency slide.”–David Letterman, host of CBS’s Late Show.
* “We do not pay much attention to races for governor in any state other than our own. But it’s going to be hard to resist watching to see if Florida wants to put its fate in the hands of a guy who looks like Lex Luthor and once ran a company that admitted defrauding the government of $1.7 million.”–Gail Collins, New York Times.
* “Florida doesn’t need a Sarah Palin with a law degree for attorney general.”–Dan Gelber.
* “It’s not an anti-incumbent year. It’s an anti-incompetence year.”–Dave Beattie, Alex Sink pollster.
* “I doubt if I’ll have a relationship with T.K. anymore.”–Former FSU football coach Bobby Bowden, referencing former FSU President T.K. Wetherell, who made Bowden the offer of staying on as “ambassador coach” or stepping down.
* “The gangs are used to putting fear into the community. Law enforcement is putting the fear back into the gangs.”–Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office detective David Evarts in the aftermath of an anti-gang operation that resulted in 28 arrests, many in the Palm River and Progress Village area.