As they see it.

It's really bad that we have to legislate logic."

--Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, who supported the recently passed state ban on texting while driving, in the Chicago Tribune.

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"We really feel that we are the forgotten disaster. We don't make sexy products. We make starch that goes into paper ... We make ethanol. The sexiest thing we make is Cap'n Crunch. We make an anonymous contribution to our country, and people forget about us."

--Greg Eyerly, flood recovery director for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which has received little of the promised federal aid for the flood in 2008, in The New York Times.

"Nobody really knows what to do with kids that are self-exploiting and taking pictures of themselves.... What our Legislature is looking at is: What do we do with those kids?"

--New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Lucy Carrillo addressing the practice of sexting, in the Concord Monitor.

"We're even looking in the sofa for extra funds."

--Alabama Interim Community College Chancellor Joan Davis, about the lack of state...