As they see it.

• Position: Legislators

"This will keep us around even though the weather in Wisconsin tells us to leave."

--Scott Kruchten, injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq in 2004, to the Duluth News Tribune, about a new law there that makes veterans eligible for full tuition waivers at the state's colleges.

"It still sends chills up my spine when I walk up those steps or when I look out my window and see this grand dome. But I know it's time to move on to a new chapter."

--Minnesota Representative Fran Bradley, on Minnesota Public Radio, about her retirement from the Legislature.

"One hurricane hitting where you live is enough to make it a bad season."

--Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, to the Washington Post, about the prediction that this year's hurricane season could be far more active than average.

"The world seems to be caught up in this frame of mind where it's not enough to say we're sorry to show our compassion and our patriotism. We are now taking it upon ourselves to use our national symbols to stretch the Flag Code to its limits."

--Bruce Butgereit, national patriotic instructor for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, to relive.com, about the recent practice of lowering the flag to half-staff for individual soldiers killed in action.

"It isn't so much that people don't like the immigrants or don't think there's a...