As they see it.

• Position: Quotation

"I have said from the very beginning that if I'm not at the table we're going to be on the menu. We're just insisting on a menu that includes alternatives to cap and trade."

--Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, in The Arizona Daily Star, about her decision not to participate in a regional cap-and-trade system yet remain in the Western Climate Initiative, which has been crafting cap-and-trade standards.

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"It's organic growth. There are more people playing, but not in an irresponsible way.

--Idaho Lotto Director Jeff Anderson told lawmakers about the current 5.4 percent sales increase in the lottery, in the Idaho Reporter.

"To me, the constitution is a sacred document. We're going in tampering with it all the time."

--Ohio Representative John Domenick, who has introduced a bill to require a 67 percent supermajority of voters to approve changes to the constitution, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

"Immigrants pay taxes like anybody else. So why do they want to eliminate programs for us? It is unfair and it is un-American."

--Yong Hak Cho, who emigrated from Korea four years ago, about the governor's proposal in California to eliminate public assistance for most new legal immigrants, in...