PERSPECTIVES
 

 
open quoteI could have seen the subprime problem coming earlier but I'm not saying I would have done anything differently.close quote

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, defending his choices about which banks should receive government aid rather than go bankrupt

 
 
open quoteWe are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami.close quote

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, responding to questioning from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, where he expressed "shocked disbelief" at the state of the economy and projected "a significant rise in layoffs and unemployment"

 
 
open quoteWe have robbers here in Pittsburgh, but they don't generally mutilate someone's face like that … They just take the money and run.close quote

Assistant Police Chief Maurita Bryant, responding to an admittedly false claim by a woman that she had been robbed and had the letter "B" scratched on her cheek because of a McCain sticker on her car

 
 
open quoteJörg and I were connected by something truly special. He was the man of my life.close quote

Stefan Petzner, leader of a far-right political party in Austria, claiming that he was the lover of Jörg Haider, his predecessor within the party, who left behind a wife and two children when he died in a car accident on Oct. 11

 
 
open quoteSasha Fierce is the fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side.close quote

Pop star Beyoncé Knowles, requesting that fans now call her by the name of her onstage alter ego, "Sasha Fierce"

 
 
open quoteDown in money, down in the polls, we got 'em just where we want 'em.close quote

Sen. John McCain, embracing his underdog status in a joint interview with Gov. Sarah Palin on NBC "Nightly News"

 
 
open quoteMark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.close quote

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, predicting an early foreign "crisis" at a fundraiser in San Francisco

 
 
open quoteI think that Joe sometimes engages in rhetorical flourishes.close quote

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, on his running mate's doomsday theorizing, explaining that Biden meant the next administration would be tested, regardless of who wins in November

 
 
open quoteI don't think Joe the Plumber wears Manolo Blahniks.close quote

Co-host of ABC's "The View" Joy Behar, poking fun at the $150,000 of Republican campaign funds that were spent on clothes and styling for Palin after she joined the GOP ticket

 
 

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