PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteWe are closer to the end of this problem than we are to the beginning.close quote

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, sounding an upbeat note about the U.S. economy and the devalued dollar during an appearance on Bloomberg Television

 
 
open quoteIt's about the dumbest thing I've heard in an awful long time, from an economic point of view.close quote

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg,on the summerlong suspension of the gas tax favored by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain

 
 
open quoteIf the economic crisis continues through 2010, Brown's dead in the water.close quote

British pollster Robert Worcester, after Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party suffered its worst local election defeat in 40 years

 
 
open quoteIt has been magical and crazy at the same time.close quote

Western Oregon softball player Sara Tucholsky, on the media frenzy that ensued when she hit her first career home run and, after injuring herself rounding first base, was carried the rest of the way by members of the opposing team. By rule, if any of her teammates had touched her, she would've had to settle for a single.

 
 
open quoteI might not know him as well as I thought.close quote

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, breaking from his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and denouncing Wright's inflammatory comments as "giving comfort to those that prey on hate"

 
 
open quoteIt's frankly a rather embarrassing matter.close quote

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the discovery that Nelson Mandela, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize winner, is included on the U.S. terrorist watch list

 
 
open quoteWe have said all along that this will be a tough fight.close quote

U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, after a string of attacks on U.S. troops made April the bloodiest month for American forces in Iraq since September 2007

 
 
open quoteBeer drinkers' votes and wine drinkers' votes count exactly the same.close quote

North Carolina Rep. Brad Miller, an undecided superdelegate, downplaying Barack Obama's struggles to win white, working-class voters

 
 
open quoteI think my real competition is the beaver.close quote

Magician David Blaine, on setting a new world record for breath-holding—17 minutes 4 seconds—but falling short of beavers, which can go 20 minutes without oxygen

 
 

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