As they see it.

"We're sorry. We're unable to take your call at the present time due to extremely high call volume."

--Tennessee Office of Unemployment phone recording, as reported by Stateline.org.

"It's not 'Oh my gosh, I won't be able to send my kids to college,' It's 'Oh my gosh, I won't be able to survive the winter."

--Dr. David McKay, a psychiatrist with Rutland Mental Health Services in Vermont about the effect of current economic woes on people's mental health, in the Rutland Herald.

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"If we hope to sustain American democracy, we need to treat civic learning as on a par with other academic subjects. To participate fully in our democracy, students need to understand our government, our history, and our laws."

--Sandra Day O'Connor and Lee H. Hamilton in an opinion piece in The Christian Science Monitor.

"Let's see what happened before, let's study this thing. You have the history, I don't, but that's what happens with term limits."

--Arkansas Representative Johnny Hoyt, to the Legislative Council, about looking into privatizing prisons, in the Arkansas News Bureau.

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"We're so frustrated with Congress and the inaction to develop some type of illegal immigration reform to where we could protect our borders for national security reasons."

--West...