• Otherwise, you need to come out with a big camera rolling, and they've already pulled their pants up.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Illinois   |   March 6, 2012
• Christopher Drew, expressing satisfaction that an Illinois law that makes it illegal to record conversations -- even of public officials in public places -- without consent was ruled unconstitutional. Drew was charged with violating the 'eavesdropping' law for recording police officers' conversations while he was being arrested.

• Everyone in this room knows that ‘inspirational messages’ means religious indoctrination.
• Source: Miami Herald   |   Florida   |   March 5, 2012
• Florida state Rep. Jeff Clemens, on a bill that will likely become law that would let school districts allow students to give “inspirational messages” at public-school events.

• I have to win Georgia, I think, to be credible in the race.
• Source: Associated Press   |   Georgia   |   March 2, 2012
• Republican presidential candidate Newt Gringrich, speaking to the Cobb Chamber of Commerce outside Atlanta. Georgia, Gingrich's home state, is one of the states holding its primary on Super Tuesday, March 6.

• Normally I don’t send or forward a lot of these, but even by my standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my friends to feel what I felt when I read this.
• Source: Great Falls Tribune   |   March 1, 2012
• Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull, in an email he sent from his courtroom to six people that addressed President Barack Obama's race. According to the Great Falls Tribune, Cebull admitted that the email included racially charged content.

• Nobody is going to get you a decent, good-paying job with benefits for a one-shot, $30 fee.
• Source: WSB-TV   |   February 29, 2012
• John Sours from the Georgia Governor's Office of Consumer Protection, commenting on a fake Craigslist ad for jobs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

• If the Republican Party continues to say no to equality, to diversity and to dignity, they will be a dinosaur party.
• Source: Politico   |   Vermont   |   February 28, 2012
• Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, at the annual National Governors Association meeting where many Democratic governors said the spotlight that social issues like abortion and contraception are getting in this election are hurting the GOP party.

• If we, er, when we get a divorce, does that quell "conflict of interest" accusations about BP?
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Alaska   |   February 27, 2012
• Sarah Palin, in an email to her husband Todd, who was a BP employee. Palin's records from before she resigned as governor of Alaska were recently released.

• If he was one of my sons, I would have washed his mouth out with jalapeño peppers.
• Source: Wall Street Journal   |   New Hampshire   |   February 24, 2012
• New Hampshire state Rep. Susan Emerson, referring to House Speaker William O'Brien's critical response to one of her proposals last year that pushed her to introduce a bill to make it illegal for state legislators to bully one another. The bill failed 224-78.

• IT’S ANONYMOUS...kicking ass and taking names...hacking the atrocious government of Newark.
• Source: New Jersey Star-Ledger   |   Newark, N.J.   |   February 23, 2012
• The subject line of an email sent by CabinCr3w, an affiliate of the hackers group Anonymous, from the city when it hacked Newark, N.J.'s government website.

• It's funny to see everyday people talking about the appellate court system.
• Source: USA Today   |   Alabama   |   February 22, 2012
• Gwendolyn Ferreti, a community organizer in Alabama, looking on the bright side of Alabama's controversial immigration law which is that people are learning about the lawmaking and the court-review processes that have followed.

• Is there some war they have to be ready for? Is there something pending that the rest of us need to know about?
• Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution   |   Georgia   |   February 20, 2012
• Georgia state Rep. Roger Bruce, who said he doesn't understand why gun rights advocates have filed so many bills in recent years to ease the requirements for who can carry guns and where. A bill in the House now would allow guns in bars, public schools, most government buildings and college campuses.

• I don't think we're doing a good job at making them ready for real-life situations by sugar-coating everything.
• Source: The Associated Press   |   Arizona   |   February 17, 2012
• Kelly Parrish, an English teacher in Phoenix, on the Arizona bill that would punish teachers for using words that violate the FCC's obscenity and profanity guidelines. Parrish argues that words that violate FCC regulations are often in literature, such as racial slurs in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

• There are quarterbacks in Mexico and receivers in the U.S. We try to intercept, obviously.
• Source: High Country News   |   Arizona   |   February 15, 2012
• Lt. Gerardo Castillo of Santa Cruz County, referring to the "game" that marijuana smugglers and U.S. Border Patrols play across the border thanks to a 23-to-30-foot-high fence.

• I don't want to be forced to carry large amounts of money around with me.
• Source: Denver Post   |   Colorado   |   February 15, 2012
• Medical-marijuana patient Angelina Chilton, who said she feels unsafe having to carry large amounts of cash because most dispensaries can't use banks or credit unions. Despite hers and others testimony, a Colorado Senate committee rejected a bill that would have created a first-of-its-kind financial system for medical-marijuana businesses.

• The guy is a walking example of the need for pension reform.
• Source: Los Angeles Times   |   Los Angeles   |   February 14, 2012
• California Pension Reform president Dan Pellissier, referring to John Sandbrook, the L.A. Memorial Coliseum's Interim General Manager, who used about 35 years worth of unused sick leave to boost his annual pension by $655 a month.