• Until the official jurisdictions limit my ability to serve, I shall hopefully maintain perfect attendance and a positive attitude.
• Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   |   Pennsylvania   |   February 8, 2012
• Pennsylvania state Rep. and House Speaker Bill DeWeese, who has vowed to continue his re-election campaign despite recently being found guilty of five felony corruption charges. He receives his sentence April 24.

• I don’t like legislating based on what the headline is.
• Source: Washington Post   |   Virginia   |   February 7, 2012
• Virginia Del. Mark L. Keam, on the "Tebow bill," which would allow home-schooled students to play sports at public schools. Tim Tebow, the popular NFL quarterback was home-schooled in Florida but played on his local high school's football team.

• It sounds like today the music may have died in the N.C. Democratic headquarters.
• Source: Raleigh News & Observer   |   North Carolina   |   February 6, 2012
• State GOP Chairman Robin Hayes, on the high number of top Democrats that have announced their retirement from the legislature in the past week. Hayes attributes the exodus to the party's "radical shift to the liberal left" and to the president's reduced popularity.

• We don't have a health care system; we have a sick care system.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Delaware   |   February 3, 2012
• Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, who complained that the nation's health care system fails to encourage healthy behavior and discourage unhealthy behavior.
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• When did it become more important that a member of your party, Democrat or Republican, be the president over doing the right thing?
• Source: Governing.com   |   Washington, D.C.   |   February 2, 2012
• Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy at Governing's Outlook on the States and Localities conference in Washington, D.C. Malloy said the lack of cooperation among Congress members wouldn't be tolerated at the state or local level.
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• You have numb nuts like Reed Gusciora comparing me to George Wallace and Lester Maddox. Now, come on guys. At some point you've got to be able to call BS on those kinds of press releases.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   New Jersey   |   February 1, 2012
• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in response to the openly gay lawmaker Gusciora comparing him to former segregationist governors in the South. Christie came under fire for calling Gusciora "numb nuts" and also for comparing gay marriage to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. He has since apologized for the latter.

• The media has turned Charlie White into the modern-day, Indiana bogeyman. And it has become a sport to try to kick him out of office.
• Source: Indianapolis Star   |   Indiana   |   January 31, 2012
• Indiana state Sen. Mike Delph, a friend of Secretary of State Charlie White, who refused the governor's call for him to resign after he was accused of seven felony charges, including voter fraud and theft.

• To every criminal out there, I just put a $20,000 bounty on your head. We are coming for you. We will find you.
• Source: Philadelphia Daily News   |   Philadelphia   |   January 30, 2012
• Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, who announced that the city would pay $20,000 for tips that lead to the arrest and conviction of a murder suspect.

• We all use the word 'states' rights. But in a way, states don't have rights.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Nation   |   January 27, 2012
• GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, on "The Tonight Show" last month. He went on further to explain that individuals have rights, while states merely have power.

• When President Obama claims that the state of our union is anything but grave, he must know in his heart that this is not true.
• Source: Politico   |   Nation   |   January 26, 2012
• Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, in his response to the president's State of the Union speech. He also disagreed with Obama's assertion that Republicans were a barrier to economic progress.

• The bottom line is this is an anti-union bill, and my father will not allow me to vote for it.
• Source: Indianapolis Star   |   Indiana   |   January 25, 2012
• Indiana Sen. Tim Lanane, who said his father was a union man and that the 'right to work' bill is nothing more than an attack on the working class. The state Senate passed the measure late Monday, even though every Democrat voted against it.
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• This is not a billion dollars of new money. Even our kindergartners’ math is better than that.
• Source: Miami Herald   |   Florida   |   January 24, 2012
• Colleen Wood, founder of the education advocacy group 50th No More, on Florida Gov. Rick Scott's plan to add $1 billion into state education funding. Last year, the education budget was cut by $1.35 billion.

• Most people don't go down there to eat anyway. You don't think of Chinatown as having the best Chinese food.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Nation   |   January 23, 2012
• Shirley Woo, who left Washington, D.C., for Fairfax, Va. D.C.'s Chinatown no longer has the city's largest Chinese population because -- echoing a national trend -- many Asian-Americans have moved to the suburbs.

• He sure didn't tell me I was going to win.
• Source: Texas Tribune   |   Texas   |   January 20, 2012
• Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who dropped out of the presidential race yesterday, but had previously suggested that he was "called" by God to run.

• If you want to wear them, wear them. If you don't, don't. That's up to the talent to decide. It shouldn't be up to the government to decide.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Los Angeles   |   January 19, 2012
• Veteran porn actress and producer Tabitha Stevens, on the ordinance that would deny film permits to producers who don't comply with the condom requirement in Los Angeles, where 90 percent of porn films are made. The measure is awaiting final approval from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.