As they see it.

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"I will give you exactly 20 minutes to stop that."

--Indiana Representative Bruce Borders, in the Indianapolis Star, joking with a 60-year-old nursing home resident who grabbed his leg while he was gyrating and impersonating Elvis Presley. Borders has been an Elvis impersonator since high school and honored a request by Governor Mitch Daniels to perform at this year's inauguration.

"That's just the process. We're all friends now."

--Mississippi Representative Walter Robinson, to the Associated Press, on the start of the 2005 session, after what had been a contentious November special session.

"I'll be able to tell you in a year whose advice was good and whose wasn't so good."

--23-year-old Representative Aaron Schock, in the Associated Press. He is serving his first term in the Illinois General Assembly, and, by his account, has been getting a lot of advice.

"Medicaid is often called Pac-Man because it eats state budgets."

--NCSL President and Maryland Delegate John Hurson, quoted in UPI.

"Since I am my constituent's voice in the Legislature I felt compelled to sponsor the legislation, but I will not change...