Quotes.

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"I went into economics because I read Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels, in which social scientists save galactic civilization, and that's what I wanted to be."

--economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, quoted in The New York Times Book Review, August 6

"The postal service's numbers are better than most of ours."

--Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.), comparing the approval ratings of the USPS to those of Congress, August 6

"They are the villains in this. They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening. And the public has...