• I don’t have a feud with the guy, but I wish he’d do his job.
• Source: Politico   |   October 30, 2012
• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, admonishing Atlantic City Mayor Lorenzo Langford, for not getting the city properly evacuated before hurricane Sandy struck on Monday.

• If we lose Janice, there's going to be national headlines all over the country -- teaparty goes down
• Source: McClatchy Newspapers   |   October 29, 2012
• Norm Hughes, a conservative activist, on the upcoming recall election of Troy, Mich., Mayor Janice Daniels.
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• Fortunately somebody wiped it off before Michelle saw it.
• Source: New York Daily News   |   Nation   |   October 26, 2012
• President Barack Obama, referring to the lipstick stain he had after singer Katy Perry's grandmother kissed him backstage at a campaign rally in the battleground state of Nevada.

• The people of one county cannot be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   October 25, 2012
• Thomas Jordan Jarvis, North Carolina’s governor from 1879 to 1885.

• You think this guy has a right to vote? Not in my world.
• Source: Reuters   |   Rhode Island   |   October 24, 2012
• Joseph DeLorenzo, chairman of the Cranston, R.I., Board of Canvassers, referring to a person who served nearly 40 years in prison for killing a child and applied for an absentee ballot. DeLorenzo refused the convict's request and quit his job after the state Board of Elections warned he could face prosecution for doing so.

• The idea of having a single-sex school, focused on our young men -- I knew it had ingredients of greatness.
• Source: Newark Star-Ledger   |   New Jersey   |   October 23, 2012
• Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., where the state's first and only single-sex, non-charter public school opened last month.

• My sense is that the economy is the big issue in every race, whether it's for president or dog catcher.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   October 22, 2012
• Michael Petrilli, executive vice president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and former associate assistant deputy education secretary under President George W. Bush.

• You can't make decisions based on the basis of whether or not somebody's going to sue you or then you'll never do anything.
• Source: AP/CBS News   |   Illinois   |   October 19, 2012
• Cook County, Ill., Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who said she wouldn't be surprised if her proposal to tax bullets and guns as a way of reducing high crime rates in Chicago sparks a legal challenge. Preckwinkle is one of Governing's 2012 Public Officials of the Year.

• Our country might have been better off if it was still just men voting.
• Source: Daily Mail   |   Mississippi   |   October 18, 2012
• Janis Lane, the head of the Central Mississippi Tea Party, in response to whether she thinks there are too many male politicians telling women what to do with their bodies.
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• I don’t know if I feel betrayed or not, but right now I’m confused.
• Source: Washington Post   |   Maryland   |   October 17, 2012
• Angel Nunez, a bishop at the Bilingual Christian Church of Baltimore, who supports making some undocumented immigrants eligible for in-state tuition but opposes same-sex marriage -- both issues are on the Maryland November ballot. Immigration advocacy organizations recently formed an alliance with gay rights groups to urge passage of both.

• Will the anti-tax [fervor] of the U.S. government continue? No, I don’t think that’s possible.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   October 16, 2012
• Joshua Schank, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation and former transportation adviser for then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, on how he thinks government will have changed 25 years from now. Read more public officials' predictions about what government will look like in 2037 below.

• You’re less likely to stab someone in the back if you’re going to be having tea and cookies with them next Monday.
• Source: CommonWealth Magazine   |   Massachusetts   |   October 15, 2012
• Bill Weld, the former Massachusetts governor who in 1991 started the unusual tradition of having regular, weekly meetings for political leaders to talk about issues and legislation as well as get to know each other.

• Hello boys, thank you for calling me on my anniversary.
• Source: Reuters   |   Florida   |   October 12, 2012
• The recording on a phone sex hotline that people heard when they tried to call a toll-free hotline to learn more about the meningitis outbreak in Florida. Gov. Rick Scott mistakenly gave out the wrong number, mixing up one of the digits.

• If this were a modern-day fairy tale ... solar developers would be saying, 'Mirror, mirror on the ground, look at all the money I found!'
• Source: Los Angeles Times   |   California   |   October 11, 2012
• A California county official, talking about the state's renewable energy industry that's booming, in part, because of low-interest, government-guaranteed loans.

• We don't hesitate one minute to blow our own horn.
• Source: McClatchy Newspapers   |   Danville, Va.   |   October 10, 2012
• Harold McKinney, Boyle County Judge-Executive in Danville, Ky., which is hosting the vice presidential debate Thursday. The town of 16,000 has won several honors, including being named one of the best, most beautiful small towns in America.
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