• There are gonna be bankruptcies. There'll be indictments and there'll be deaths. But we're gonna keep going -- and nothing's gonna stop me.
• Source: McClatchy/GOVERNING   |   California   |   November 28, 2012
• California Gov. Jerry Brown, at the launch of a solar farm, pledging to "crush" opponents of solar projects.

• This is an excellent time for them to shut up and do nothing.
• Source: McClatchy/GOVERNING   |   Nation   |   November 27, 2012
• Andrew Koppelman, a Northwestern law professor, who thinks the U.S. Supreme Court will be reluctant to rule on whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. The justices will decide whether they will take the case Friday.

• When the facts change, I change my mind.
• Source: Boston Globe   |   Holyoke, Mass.   |   November 26, 2012
• Economist John Maynard Keynes, who Holyoke, Mass., Mayor Alex Morse will quote when he gives a speech on his recent reversal of his anti-casino stance.
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• I’m not a scientist, man.
• Source: Politico   |   Florida   |   November 21, 2012
• U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, when asked how old the Earth is during a GQ magazine interview.

• Boring federal government public service announcements airing at 2 in the morning are not going to work.
• Source: McClatchy/GOVERNING   |   California   |   November 20, 2012
• Larry Levitt, senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, on what California needs to do to raise public awareness about the health insurance exchange, which debuts in October 2013. In a recent focus group, only about 20 percent had heard of it.

• Somewhere, I'm quite certain Lincoln and Dr. King are smiling.
• Source: Detroit News   |   Michigan   |   November 19, 2012
• Mark Rosenbaum, the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who argued the case that ended with a federal appeals court throwing out Michigan's voter-approved ban on affirmative action in college admissions and public hiring.

• What happens if I get pulled over and I’m sober, but an officer or his K9 buddy smells the ounce of Super Skunk I’ve got in my trunk?
• Source: Seattle Police Department   |   Seattle   |   November 16, 2012
• A question on the Seattle Police Department's FAQ on marijuana, which Washington state voters -- along with Coloradoans -- approved the recreational use of last week.

• It’s like looking at a bunch of Christmas gifts that are wrapped. ... Until you open it, you don’t know what’s in there.
• Source: New York Times   |   Virginia   |   November 15, 2012
• Doug Domenech, Virginia's secretary of natural resources, referring to the energy resources that may be found off the state's coast and under the ocean if Congress restores a lease sale for energy exploration that the Obama administration canceled after the BP oil spill in 2010.

• I was astonished, amazed, disgusted, sickened, all of the above.
• Source: Stateline/GOVERNING   |   Rhode Island   |   November 14, 2012
• Rhode Island state Sen. John Tassoni Jr., who helped pass the nation's first Homeless Bill of Rights, talking about his visit to a homeless shelter that had deplorable conditions.

• I told them I was the teeny fleck of silver in their otherwise dark cloud.
• Source: Washington Post   |   District of Columbia   |   November 13, 2012
• Bruce Majors, the Libertarian candidate for D.C. congressional delegate who lost his race but earned enough votes to make the Libertarian Party an official party in the District for the first time. The third party has regular ballot access in 30 states.

• Sir, it looks like you live in Dublin, Ireland. I've got 99 problems & your ditch ain't one.
• Source: Twitter   |   Newark, N.J.   |   November 12, 2012
• Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, referencing a Jay-Z song while responding to someone's request via Twitter to fix a pothole.

• You can’t legislate courtesy.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Louisiana   |   November 9, 2012
• John Maginnis, a longtime political observer in Louisiana, where Gov. Bobby Jindal slashed nearly $1 billion in spending that legislators had approved.

• They believe that's a big reason Democrats win elections. Will they try again? Probably.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Minnesota   |   November 8, 2012
• Charles Samuelson, executive director of the ACLU of Minnesota, referring to some Republican lawmakers' belief that voter fraud is common. Voters struck down a plan to require voters to show photo ID, but Samuelson thinks they may continue to push for it.

• Federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug, so don't break out the Cheetos or gold fish too quickly.
• Source: Reuters   |   Colorado   |   November 7, 2012
• Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who opposed the now-approved ballot measures that made Colorado and Washington the first states to legalize the possession and sale of marijuana for recreational use.

• Is it undemocratic? Sure. But the alternatives are much, much worse.
• Source: GOVERNING   |   Michigan   |   November 6, 2012
• The Detroit Free-Press, which advocates for voters to preserve a controversial Michigan law -- which critics have dubbed the "dictator law" -- that gives the state almost unilateral authority to take control of struggling cities and school districts.
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