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“We’re going to still end up paying him about a buck-fifty an hour.”
Source: Washington Post
“There isn’t a scratch on it. I know how to start it, drive it, lower it, raise it.” “There isn’t a scratch on it. I know how to start it, drive it, lower it, raise it.” Ritchie Calvin David, a 15-year-old boy who was arrested for allegedly stealing a Central Florida Transportation Agency bus, which he reportedly drove along a public transit route, picking up passengers and collecting fares
Source: Associated Press “You made my day!” Camden, N.J., Mayor Gwendolyn Faison, upon learning that her city, which had been ranked by Morgan Quitno Press as America's most dangerous city for two years in a row, had been eclipsed by St. Louis, Detroit, Flint, Mich., and Compton, Calif., in the latest rankings
Source: Associated Press “More of these boobs.” The T-shirt campaign slogan for Loretta Nall, the Libertarian Party's write-in candidate in the Alabama governor's race, who also advocates less of "those boobs," as she describes Republican incumbent Bob Riley and Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley
Source: Associated Press “I’ve waited in those long lines. It’s not fun.” Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at the opening of a "flyover" bridge bypassing a complicated traffic circle that caused miles-long traffic backups for motorists heading out to Cape Cod — a project that the governor had said he would "resign in shame" over if it was not completed by the end of his term
Source: New York Times “The city has a lot of problems they have to fight right now, and this is a small one.” Allison Thomsen, a resident of De Butts Terrace in Malibu, Calif., on the city council's decision to rename the mansion-dotted street as Murphy Way at the request of residents weary of crude comments and teasing
Source: Los Angeles Times “Leadership that’s new and fresh that stands about 5-foot-9 and looks good in purple.” Barbara Ann Radnofsky, the Democratic candidate in the Texas U.S. Senate race, making the argument during a debate that someone very much like her is what's needed most in the state's politics
Source: Texas Politics blog “I have just come out of six weeks at a concentration camp held by the Democrat Party of Arkansas in an undisclosed location, making a hostage tape.” Arkansas' Republican governor, Mike Huckabee, in a joking remark that Huckabee later denied was a reference to the Holocaust or a slight against Jews, responding to radio show host Don Imus' comment that Huckabee, who lost 100 pounds through diet and exercise, looked "emaciated"
Source: Associated Press “If they told me I can’t have any money, do you think I’m going to give up my time for being a nice guy on a Saturday afternoon?” Bound Brook, N.J., Mayor Frank Ryan, applauding the state's decision to continue allowing mayors to collect fees for performing weddings
Source: Newark Star-Ledger “There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s the D.C. Council.” White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, at a charity roast of Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams, spoofing the familiar MasterCard commercials after adding up the ever-rising costs of a new Washington Nationals ballpark and concluding that the stadium was "priceless"
Source: Washington Post “Rather than run for public office, I would prefer to eat my own knee.” Filmmaker/activist Warren Beatty, who has been mentioned as a political candidate for decades, in an interview in which it was later pointed out that many Democrats had hoped that Beatty would challenge Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger in this year's governor's race
Source: New York Times Magazine “You get a safer highway when people are driving in more uniform speeds.” Carlos Lopez, director of traffic operations for the Texas Department of Transportation, on the 80 mph daytime speed limit, the nation's highest, now posted on 521 miles of Interstate 10 in west Texas “What’s next? 85? They’ll keep going.” Becky Dean-Walker, county judge of Hudspeth County, Texas, whose commissioners passed a resolution opposing the increase of the speed limit from 75 mph
Source: New York Times “There’s no typical American.” Bobby Woo, an Atlanta attorney and son of a Chinese immigrant, who was heralded by Life magazine as the 200 millionth American when he was born in 1967, saying he welcomed the media spotlight moving elsewhere when the 300 millionth American was born or immigrated, which the Census Bureau estimated occurred on Oct. 17
Source: Associated Press “It’s old-time family finances.” Dianne Robertson, administrator of the village of Thiensville, Wis., on the prospect that as of Nov. 1 the community, once $6 million in debt after borrowing to pay for downtown improvements, will be debt-free as a result of adopting a pay-as-you-go approach to municipal finance
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “To link me to George Bush is like linking me to an Oscar. I mean, that’s ridiculous.” California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was never nominated for an Academy Award, asked by "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno about campaign ads attempting to link the Republican governor to the president
Source: Los Angeles Times “It requires a higher power than the federal government to cause somebody to love somebody.” President Bush, at a conference on school violence, saying it's not up to the federal government to legislate character education
Source: New York Times “I never felt so much like a hooker down by the bus station in any race I’ve ever been in as I did in a judicial race.” Ohio Supreme Court Justice Paul E. Pfeifer, on the increasing cost of running for the bench and the ethical issues raised by the practice of electing the state judiciary
Source: New York Times “I’m going all the way to the top, baby.” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, on a trade mission to China, South Korea and Japan, bounding up the steep stone steps of the Great Wall of China, passing several winded hikers and leaving most of his entourage behind
Source: Los Angeles Times “I need to get more glamorous films.” Actress Sienna Miller, on location to film "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," trashing the city in a Rolling Stone magazine interview in which she used a word that starts with "sh" and rhymes with "Pittsburgh" to refer to it “She is forgiven.” Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, accepting an apology from Miller offered up during a public appearance with him
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Work will set you free.” A message, the English translation of one posted at the entrances of Nazi death camps during World War II, that was placed on the lockers of members of Illinois' Maine South High School football team by Coach Dave Inserra, which resulted in Inserra being suspended for one game and for which Inserra apologized, saying it was "an honest mistake" and "I should have checked the origin" Source: Chicago Sun-Times “The days of going to the DMV and getting your license on the same day are probably over.” David Quam, director of federal relations for the National Governors Association, on the impact on citizens of the federal Real ID Act, which state motor vehicle administrators say will cost more than $11 billion over five years to implement
Source: Washington Post “Basically, all this is their opinion and their assertions. I can’t say whether it’s true or not. I can’t say they’re lying.” Garry P. Webb-Bey, a Brooklyn tax preparer whose effort to get big tax refunds for his clients by declaring that New York State is a separate country, thereby qualifying his clients for the foreign earned-income tax exclusion, brought accusations of fraud from the U.S. Justice Department
Source: New York Times “Too pretty — I’m voting for the ugly guy.” A Pittsburgh cab driver, asked if he planned to vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate and former Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann, in a story recounted by Democratic incumbent Ed Rendell, who says he's losing weight on a diet he describes as a "sort of a modified Atkins"
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer “This is the handsomest building I ever saw.” President Theodore Roosevelt, dedicating the new Pennsylvania State Capitol building on Oct. 4, 1906, and who was to be portrayed by an actor at re-dedication ceremonies for the Capitol complex on its hundredth birthday
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “He’s gone on to be governor, and I still think I’m Batman.” Actor and political activist George Clooney, who starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1997 film "Batman and Robin," saying during a Schwarzenegger bill-signing ceremony that he has no plans to run for political office
Source: Associated Press “This really is a good-natured cult.” John McClaughry, head of a Vermont think tank and a former White House official, on a years-long effort by a group known as the Second Vermont Republic to have the state secede from the United States
Source: Los Angeles Times “I’m tired, I’m hungry, I’m horny, I’m stoned ... and I’m a city official.” Boulder, Colo., Human Relations Commission Chairman Rob Smoke, paraphrasing The Doors on his MySpace online profile, among comments on his MySpace page for which he came under fire but for which the city council voted unanimously not to punish him
Source: Denver Post
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