• I've had longtime supporters tell me, 'I don't even know what party you are.' And I like that.
• Source: Sacramento Bee   |   California   |   April 24, 2012
• California Congressional candidate Linda Parks, who is one of 36 candidates with "no party preference" running for state and federal office in California this year, the first time the option is available for primary candidates.

• This bill stinks.
• Source: Montgomery Advertiser   |   Alabama   |   April 23, 2012
• Alabama state Rep. Joseph Mitchell, on why he wore a gas mask the week the House of Representatives discussed and approved legislation that revises the state’s controversial immigration law.

• We like our celebrities. We elected Ronald Reagan and (Arnold) Schwarzenegger. Gavin is trying it while he's in office -- which is a different way.
• Source: San Francisco Chronicle   |   California   |   April 20, 2012
• Patrick Dorinson, a Sacramento-area radio host and political blogger, on California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to host a weekly hour-long show on Current TV.

• Twice run, twice passed, twice vetoed. How many times is it going to take for people to figure it out? This is making our state a laughing- stock.
• Source: Arizona Republic   |   Arizona   |   April 19, 2012
• Arizona state Sen. Paula Aboud, referring to Gov. Jan Brewer's recent veto (for the second time) of a bill that would have allowed guns on public property including city halls, police stations, county courts and the state Capitol.

• It’s the appearance of progress rather than actual progress.
• Source: New Jersey Star-Ledger   |   New Jersey   |   April 18, 2012
• Ken Wolski, head of New Jersey’s Coalition for Medical Marijuana, on the state's decision to allow the first medical pot center to start growing the cannabis crop yet none of the centers are operating and not one patient has received access to the drug.

• I guess I’m not speaking in little enough words for you to understand.
• Source: Washington Post   |   Virginia   |   April 17, 2012
• Virginia House Speaker William J. Howell to a liberal activist after she confronted him about his role with a conservative national group that ghostwrites legislation. He later called her to apologize.

• If it weren't for this program, I’d probably still be sitting in jail wondering how I was going to get out.
• Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution   |   Georgia   |   April 16, 2012
• Ricky Smith, who had been jailed for delinquent child support payments but is now paying and seeing his children regularly after participating in one of Georgia's Parental Accountability Courts, which address problems parents have -- such as unemployment, drug use and lack of transportation -- that keep them from making regular support payments.

• I swore with my hand on the Bible to uphold the Constitution. I didn’t swear with my hand on the Constitution to uphold the Bible.
• Source: New York Times   |   Nation   |   April 13, 2012
• New York state Sen. Mark Grisanti, an Italian Catholic Republican lawyer, who initially voted against the gay-marriage bill but eventually supported it.
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• We’re turning into a paternalistic entitlement society. That will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally.
• Source: New Jersey Star-Ledger   |   New Jersey   |   April 12, 2012
• New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to an audience of national Republicans, including former President George W. Bush who nominated Christie to be U.S. Attorney in 2001.

• Frankly, I think it's unfortunate that the president of the United States is getting involved in a state issue.
• Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune   |   Minnesota   |   April 11, 2012
• Minnesota state Rep. Steve Gottwalt, who supports a ballot measure that President Barack Obama's campaign recently opposed. Minnesotans will vote Nov. 6 on a state constitutional amendment that would, in effect, ban same-sex marriage.

• They may dislike me so much, they’ll say, ‘Hell, no.’ Or they may like you so much, they’ll say, ‘Hell, yes.’
• Source: Miami Herald   |   Miami   |   April 10, 2012
• Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff, on voters' possible reactions to a plan, which must be approved by the public, that would give all of the city's six elected officials an extra year in office by changing city elections from odd to even years.

• He is a high-class, high-falutin huckster and hustler.
• Source: The Star-Ledger   |   April 9, 2012
• Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, speaking about New Jersey Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek in the wake of a ruling this week that leaves the city owing money on the Prudential Center after investing $210 million to build the downtown arena.

• We have a 5-year old daughter and she doesn't understand why we can't get back into our home.
• Source: Dallas Morning News   |   April 6, 2012
• Jada Lee of Lancaster, Texas, telling the Dallas Morning News how her family hasn't been able to see the damage to their home after tornadoes hit the area earlier this week.

• My daughter is 14 years old. Now you tell me -- I’d like to know, what is a 62-year-old man want to follow a 14-year-old girl on Twitter [for]?
• Source: Politico   |   Nebraska   |   April 5, 2012
• State Attorney General Jon Bruning, who said it was “creepy” that State Treasurer Don Stenberg was trying to follow his daughter on Twitter. Both men are running against each other in the Republican primary for retiring U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson's seat.

• It’s their Constitution, they’ll write it how they want.
• Source: Talking Points Memo   |   The Nation   |   April 4, 2012
• Jeffrey Toobin, speaking to Talking Points Memo about his predictions regarding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Toobin mentions that Chief Justice John Roberts is a "really, really good writer" and that whatever side he's on, he'll write a persuasive argument.
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