As they see it.

"This isn't a challenge. This is a disaster just waiting to happen."

--Joe Deneault, chairman of West Virginians for Better Transportation, which hosted a statewide conference addressing concerns over depleted revenues for the state's roadways, in the Charleston Daily Mail

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"Cooperation is contradictory to the fundamental way we relate to each other. As states, we compete ... for economic development; we compete for water resources; we compete for ink in the newspapers; we compete for attracting good and bright minds to our universities."

--Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal, during a symposium on energy issues, reported by the Associated Press.

"Testing and preparation for testing has gotten to be something that in some cases consumes more time than teaching."

--Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, in The Buffalo News.

"We should always be vigilant about enforcing our tax laws, but it becomes even more important when we are in tough fiscal times, when millions of law-abiding people are paying their taxes the way they are supposed to."

--New York Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, who has proposed legislation to publicize the names of tax delinquents who owe the state more than...