As they see it.

"The White House should accept the olive branch extended by the National Conference of State Legislatures and work with states to make the No Child Left Behind Act more flexible."

--An editorial in the Miami Herald after NCSL's No ChiLd Left Behind Task Force released a report calling for reforms needed for states to meet the goals of the education act.

"No governor can withstand a budget impasse, I don't care how many hit movies you've made."

--Garry South, a California Democratic consultant, on the battle between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic-controlled legislature.

"You have to ask yourself, if someone is so bored that playing solitaire is stimulating, then the problem is not with the game, it's with the job."

--Scott Kirwin, founder of the IT Professionals Association of America, in the Christian Science Monitor, reacting to a North Carolina bill that would remove the game solitaire from state computers.

"I understand the lighthearted side of this, but I just feel that we are in a sacred institution. In a sense it's a mockery of that institution to bring forth legislation such as this."

--South Dakota Senator Brock Greenfield in Stateline.org on the increasing number of requests for official state symbols.

"I don't need to be looking at my checkbook wondering if I can afford to do that or not."

--Chris Heger, director of Baldwin County, Alabama's 911 center, quoted in the Mobile Register about a proposal that would increase the 911 fee charged to wireless customers throughout the state in an effort to upgrade technology to...