As they see it.

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"We collect state capitols."

--Wayne Cottam of Mesa, Ariz., one of a group of people whose goal it is to tour as many state capitol buildings as possible, to the Casper Star Tribune, while in Cheyenne, Wyo.

THEY ATE CHINESE SHRIMP, BRUSHED THEIR TEETH WITH CHINESE TOOTHPASTE, FED THEIR DOG CHINESE PET FOOD WHILE THEIR KID WAS PLAYING WITH A CHINESE TOY TRAIN. THEN ON THEIR WAY TO THE HOSPITAL, THEIR CHINESE TIRES BLEW OUT.

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"If it's decided that we need to take these things out of our foods in restaurants for health interests, we'll be willing to work with you."

--Peter G. Christie, president of the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, to the Legislature's Joint Committee on Public Health about a statewide trans-fat ban, in The Boston Globe.

"People have a strong emotional attachment to their family pets. I think it's fair and appropriate for family courts to deal with the placement of family pets."

--Wisconsin Senator Carol Roessler to ABC News about a proposed law to control how couples who split up handle custody of their pets.

"We in storage. We just in storage."

--New Orleans native Ann Picard from her mobile home park, to The New York Times about the long wait to go home.

"Eighteen= to 20-year-olds are not quite getting the message. "

--California...