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open quoteI'm sure there was the same pushback years ago when somebody invented the telephone. 'Ooh, you can't talk there because somebody might hear you.' Well, that's the whole point. We want people to hear us.close quote

Lt. Col. Kevin Arata, director of the Army's new online and social-media division, on his office's efforts to reach potential recruits through Facebook and Twitter

 
 
open quoteThe question is, what do we do with the 50 to 100— probably in that ballpark—who we cannot release and cannot try? I think that question is still open.close quote

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on the unsettled issues regarding detainees at Guantánamo Bay, which President Obama has said he will shut down

 
 
open quoteWe're on the Titanic and, rather than forcing our children into the lifeboat, we're telling them to join the band.close quote

MeMe Roth, president of National Action Against Obesity, on new clothing lines aimed at plus-size teenage girls from retailers Target and Forever 21

 
 
open quoteThis is just prolonging the bleeding.close quote

Former assembly worker Patrick Stever, on the bankruptcy merger of Fiat and Chrysler, which he fears will only further curtail buyout money and pensions

 
 
open quoteI cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up.close quote

Elizabeth Edwards, in a forthcoming memoir, on her reaction when her husband, former presidential candidate John Edwards, confessed to having an affair

 
 
open quoteLike everything on Wall Street, they're starting to sin again. As you see a recovery, you'll see everybody's compensation beginning to rise.close quote

Banking analyst Brad Hintz, on news of ballooning bonuses in the financial sector

 
 
open quoteI don't want to run auto companies. I don't want to run banks. I've got two wars I've got to run already. I've got more than enough to do.close quote

President Obama, attempting to allay fears about the federal government exercising significant and lasting control over companies in which it is now a major shareholder because of the federal bailout

 
 
open quoteIf we pursue a party that has no place for someone who agrees with me 70 percent of the time … then we are going to keep losing.close quote

South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, on members of his party who argued that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter's decision to switch parties and become a Democrat was good for Republicans

 
 

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