“Look, it’s not us making this charge. It’s the media.”
- Hillary on the plagiarism charges against Obama
Politico has more.

“This feels good. It’s just like I imagined it when I was talking to my Kindergarten teacher.”
- Obama this morning at a rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

“I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim. There’s a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal.”
- Former Senator Bob Kerrey “praising” the Illinois Senator, while at [...]

“Whoever imagined that you would hear from the United States and from Britain the same arguments for detention without trial that were used by the apartheid government.”
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the gravity of our policies

“What does it say about your party when people are deemed unelectable because they oppose torture?”
- John Cole talking about Republicans’ problems with Mike Huckabee

“The euro, worth 83 cents in the early George W. Bush years, is at $1.45. The British pound is back up over $2, the highest level since the Carter era. The Canadian dollar, which used to be worth 65 cents, is worth more than the U.S. dollar for the first time in half a century. [...]

Why paragraph? Well, it’s much more than just a quote…
“Mother Teresa’s agonies of doubt are surely not all that unusual. What is unusual is that she put them in writing and now they are being revealed to the world, in spite of her explicit wish that they be destroyed. I get mail all the time [...]

“So 2745 out of 302,703,731 in the past ten years have died in terrorist attacks, and we are getting our knickers in a twist about an arrow made of flour in the IKEA parking lot?”
- John Cole on this story.
Why do you hate American John?

“If America were a stock, it would be a “buyâ€Â?: an undervalued market leader, in need of new management. But that points to its last great strength. More than any rival, America corrects itself.”
- Economist article entitled ‘Still No.1′

“Despite dire predictions, there has been no adverse societal impact from this decision and most people now express little concern about same gender marriage.”
- Massachusetts State Senator Gale D. Candaras (D), who voted for a same sex ban in January, but changed her vote this week.

Suddenly, they’re everywhere.

“Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course,â€Â? George. We have been â€â€? we will complete the mission, we will do our job, and help achieve the goal, but we’re constantly adjusting to tactics. Constantly.”
- George W. Bush on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos

“We could also electrify this wire with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.”
- Rep. Steve King (R-IA) talking about his border solution.
(Watch the video)

“You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard.”
- Ann Coulter to The Washington Post on 10/16/98.

“Institutionally, the presidency is walking all over Congress at the moment. If we are to maintain our institutional prerogative, that may be the only way we can do it.”
- Senator Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
He’s talking about proposing legislation to cut off funding for the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program if Congress doesn’t get some answers soon.
More here.

Frankly, I don’t like the “L” word. It’s been misused so many times in the collective political conversations the past decade, it has started to lose meaning. But, as Michael Reynolds points out over at The Mighty Middle, I don’t know if Bush can talk his way out of this one.
“I didn’t want war. To [...]

“I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center.”
-Former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, May 16, 2002
“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
-President George W. Bush, September 1, 2005
“I think many realized how vulnerable our ports were, but didn’t [...]

“The Vice of conservatives is believing that conservatism is a morality test; the vice of liberals is believing that liberalism is an intelligence test”
-Gruntled Center (although I don’t know if they came up with it.)

“All I’m saying is the inherent authority argument in its application to me seems to have no boundaries when it comes to executive decisions in a time of war, it deals the Congress and courts out, Mr. Attorney General.”
-Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

What. A. Dick.
“Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he’s nice but you don’t take him seriously. That’s Canada.”
But, you know, he’s just kidding…