"I'm trying to save the planet." – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, impatiently explaining why she's using parliamentary maneuvers to prevent GOP members from offering energy policy alternatives (Politico.com, Monday)
"How does it make you feel that Zhang Linsen has a big Hummer with nine speakers blaring as he pulls out into a four-lane road with so much smog he basically can't see the car in front of him, and you are trading in all of your cars and trying to go out and find basically a lawn mower?" – Rush Limbaugh, defending Chinese government gasoline subsidies as key to economic growth and national pride (The Rush Limbaugh Show, Monday)
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds." – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, speaking to a minority journalists' convention (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Monday)
"I have flown Southwest, Continental, and when they saw me in uniform, they didn't even ask. I flew American a couple of times before, but I never had this problem." –Army Staff Sgt. Ashley Serrano, on Fort Worth-based American Airlines nailing him this time for an extra $100 baggage fee so he could get his all of his field gear out of El Paso International Airport and, ultimately, to Iraq (El Paso Times, Wednesday)
"He's such a boring guy that a little pizzazz may help him." – Darlene Ewing, chairwoman of the Dallas County Democratic Party, razzing GOP Rep. Pete Sessions over a fundraiser he held in a Las Vegas adult club (The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday)
"It is a massive blow to confidence in the global economy." –Peter Power, spokesman for the European Commission, on the collapse of world trade talks in Doha (The New York Times, Wednesday)
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