As they see it.

• Position: Gretchen Whitmer, Thomas Mullaney, and Oliver Houck - Quotation

"You wouldn't say your cardiologist should have six years or less of experience."

--Michigan Senator Gretchen Whitmer on term limits, in Stateline.org.

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"We're down to a point where there's not any fluff left in the budget."

--Thomas Mullaney, Rhode Island's state budget director, in The Wall Street Journal.

"They pay the bills and we would let them do whatever they wanted. We didn't regulate their waste, their pipelines, or the canals they dug through the marsh to get their deposits.... And we handed out permits like orders at McDonald's."

--Oliver Houck, a Tulane University law professor specializing in environmental issues, about Louisiana's previous support for oil drilling, in The Birmingham News.

"It's not that we are out to help Democrats. We are out to hurt Republicans who say they are for fiscal responsibility and who are not."

--Florida Tea Party Chairman Fred O'Neal, in the Miami Herald.

"Taxpayers are going to pay, regardless of whether they play."

--Les Bernal, former aide to Massachusetts Senator Susan C. Tucker and current director of Stop Predatory Gambling, about his concerns over the social costs of expanding gambling, in The Boston Globe.

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"It might be unorthodox, but...