Quotes.

"It's ironical to me that we're living in a time ... where we actually now can't do anything until we talk to our loan officer in Beijing. We have a Communist banker. That's where deregulation got us. It's like Ayn Rand got loaded and woke up next to Keynes."

--West Wing actor Bradley Whitford at a press conference on Capitol Hill, April 6

"If I'm corrupt, it's because I take care of my district."

--Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 29

"My grandfather was not a monkey!"

--shouted by an unidentified woman at a Texas State Board of Education meeting focused on...