• These sex traffickers are very creative. We need to be even more creative.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Texas   |   September 6, 2012
• Maria Trujillo, executive director of the Houston Rescue and Restoration Coalition, a nonprofit that helps human trafficking victims. The possibility of training cable installers or building inspectors to look for signs of human trafficking has been floated.

• I'm not like other governors. I'm not showing up to give a speech about myself. That was rampant at the Republican convention.
• Source: Hartford Courant   |   Connecticut   |   September 5, 2012
• Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who will speak at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, criticizing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
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• There are few places that are getting any younger. We don’t want people, as they get older, to get more and more isolated.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   September 4, 2012
• Nancy LeaMond, executive vice president of AARP’s state and national group. To explore the impact of this generational shift through in-depth stories, data and interactive content, go to governing.com/generations.

• I guess you got your swagger back.
• Source: Philadelphia Inquirer   |   Philadelphia   |   August 31, 2012
• Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, talking to rapper Jay-Z who will be performing at the Made in America music festival in the City of Brotherly Love this weekend.

• You can’t just trot out a brown face or a person with a Spanish surname.
• Source: Miami Herald   |   Florida   |   August 30, 2012
• Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, chairman of the Democratic National Convention, mocking the Republican Party’s Hispanic outreach.

• Cheap.
• Source: Politico   |   Nation   |   August 29, 2012
• Josh Romney, when asked to describe his father, Mitt, in one word.

• You don’t want them walking away saying, ‘I paid to get in, I bought my kid a hot dog, I just want to show my kid a fish -- and you are making me feel bad about climate change,’
• Source: New York Times   |   Nation   |   August 28, 2012
• Paul Boyle, the senior vice president for conservation and education at the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, on why some zoos' and aquariums' are reluctant to dwell on climate change during tours or on instructional signs.
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• Nobody will confuse a yellow car with a 75-foot-long train car that runs underground.
• Source: New York Times   |   New York City   |   August 27, 2012
• New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Chairman David Yassky, on officials’ concerns that the city’s new logo for cabs, which replaces the word “taxi” with a simple “T,” might be too similar to the under-construction T train which will eventually run underneath Second Avenue.

• If you don’t like New York, you don’t have to come to New York. You don’t have to sell your products here. And perhaps we won’t come to your concerts.
• Source: New York Times   |   New York City   |   August 24, 2012
• New York state Senator Malcolm Smith, after rapper Lil Wayne said that he doesn't like New York. Smith called a news conference to demand an apology from the rapper.
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• When a state regulator wants to, he or she can take the ‘dual’ in U.S. bank regulatory jurisdiction and turn it into a very powerful solo act.
• Source: Washington Post   |   Nation   |   August 23, 2012
• Karen Shaw Petrou, managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics. Ever since the financial crisis, some state regulators have been using state laws to get some of the biggest banks to fall in line.

• Leave banks can become a de facto deferred-compensation program. It's a huge unfunded liability.
• Source: Sacramento Bee   |   California   |   August 22, 2012
• Dave Gilb, a former head of California's personnel department. Recent investigations revealed that excessive leave hours built up by state parks managers led to a larger revelation that the state Department of Parks and Recreation hid millions of dollars even while threatening to close parks.

• From what I understand from doctors, (pregnancy) is really rare ... If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
• Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch   |   Missouri   |   August 21, 2012
• U.S. Senate nominee Todd Akin (R-Mo.), who said he opposes all abortions -- even in cases of rape -- during a TV interview this past weekend. His comment, which he later apologized for, sparked outrage nationwide and led to calls from his own party for him to drop out of the race.

• I cannot have any more deaths on my conscience because we did not take action.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Dallas   |   August 20, 2012
• Mike Rawlings, the mayor of Dallas, where the nation's West Nile virus outbreak is the worst. It prompted the county to spray insecticide from the air for the first time in nearly 50 years.

• I hate to put a number on having children but I don't know, we enjoy having a home and keeping food on the table.
• Source: McClatchy Newspapers   |   Minnesota   |   August 17, 2012
• Sasha Reese, a resident of Minnesota, where putting an infant in child care costs more than a year of state college tuition. The high cost of care, she said, has influenced her decision on if and when to have more kids.

• [Politics are] down in the toilet. Everybody lies. The deficit? My good Lord almighty.
• Source: USA Today   |   Nation   |   August 16, 2012
• North Carolina resident Annie Provencher, 60, who didn't vote in the 2008 presidential election and said she would only vote this year if Hillary Clinton were running. A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll found that nearly 40 percent of eligible voters didn't cast a ballot in 2008 and the rate is expected to rise this year.