As they see it.

• Position: Quotation

"It's there for a reason. If you never use it, why do you have it?"

--Maryland Delegate Murray D. Levy, on his state's rainy day fund during discussion about its appropriate funding level, in the Gazette.net.

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"If I can't afford to pay for it, I'll just die. I'm ready to die."

--Lyle DeFord, 77, a retired pastor in Iowa, who opposes the health care reform proposals, in the Des Moines Register.

"If life were this dangerous for ordinary grownups, we'd never tolerate it."

--David Finkelhor, director of the UNH Crimes' Against Children Research Center and director of a study on children and violence, in the Fosters Daily Democrat.

"It's like taking away the beauty of what belongs to everyone."

--Nebraskan Lisa Betz, who worries' that a flood-control project on her land being paid for with federal stimulus money, will scar the beauty of Scotts Bluff National Monument, in the Grand Island Independent.

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"Students generally feel that if you come to Harvard, for what you're paying, you should probably have the...