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“I don’t know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We’ve had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we’ve run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.” Sam Nunn

“Honestly, if you proposed the film work-flow today, you’d be taken to the city square and hung. Imagine I told you we’re going to shoot on superexpensive cameras, using rolls of celluloid made in China that are a one-time-use product susceptible to scratches and that can’t be exposed to light. And you can’t even be sure you got the image until they’re developed. And you have to dip them in a special fluid that can ruin them if it’s mixed wrong. People would think I was crazy.” Bengt Jan Jönsson

“Managing Hillary and Bill was a full-time job in 2000. In eight years, nothing has changed.” Anonymous Superdelegate at Democratic convention

“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative, and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.” Banksy

“When I see Facebook, I feel like Howlin’ Wolf must have felt when he first heard Elvis. ‘They finally taught a white boy to do this.’”Jeffrey Zeldman

“One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can’t disagree without challenging each other’s character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America’s national interest. Now, it’s time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same. Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country.” Barack Obama

“If I would ask you in response to the same question how fast the American forces can leave Iraq, for example, the answer would be as soon as we have guarantees for peace and security there. The same answer would be toward this situation.” Konstantin Kosachev,, on when Russia will leave Georgia

“Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it’s beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It’s touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.” James Fallows

“Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that ‘demeaning portrayals of women … dampen the dreams of our daughters’ […] It would have been better to put this language in the platform: ‘A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.’” Maureen Dowd

“We have already experienced Russian tanks on Rustaveli. It has been awfully scary. When the president ordered to attack Tskhinvali [the capital of South Ossetia], we knew then we were doomed. How come he didn’t realize that?” Lyudmila Agishvili

“As a biomedical researcher I will make this small prediction: several years from now statisticians will measure a real and significant ‘Beijing effect’ in endurance athletes who competed outdoors in the 2008 Olympics. Some of the smog damage to competitors’ lungs will heal, and some of it will still be detectable ten years from now.” Tim F.

“The Olympic Games are for ‘the youth of the world,’ but they’re organized and scored by countries. It’s no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC’s chauvinistic coverage: don’t bother! They’re actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America — I know, it’s because I can’t get it that I’m watching Women’s Air Pistol — so can’t ruffle feathers elsewhere.” James Fallows

“As you watch the Olympics over the next few weeks, remember that the events on TV are not happening in a vacuum. And when images of protest and calls for Tibetan independence or religious freedom break into coverage of gymnastics or water polo, recognize that they are taking place because the world is just not ready to abandon morality and human dignity because there are Games on.” Matt Browner Hamlin

“What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.” Frank Rich

“I was with Senator Obama last week as we met privately with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Obama listened to their concerns and expressed his gratitude for their service without press or fanfare.” Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

“I’m a lifelong Republican — a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole’s presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp’s Empower America. This November, I’m voting for Barack Obama.” Larry Hunter

“Finally, in the eyes of a nine year old, politics is very simple. Alex was drawn to Obama because of their shared support for the Chicago Bears two years ago. While this is probably not the best basis for making a decision on whom to support for President, I do believe it points out that we adults often try to make these decisions much more complex than they really are. Elections are often decided on a very simply and visceral response to a particular candidate. While we may try to articulate profound reasons why we chose to make a decision, if you peel away the onion far enough, you will find that a decision is made simply because of a visceral like or dislike of an individual running for the office of President.” Chuck Clay

“If you didn’t know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to make enemies rather than friends in the Arab-Islamic world. And if you didn’t know better, you might think that the Chinese government’s approach to the Olympics is being set by people trying to make the country look bad.” James Fallows

“Say nothing of my religion. It is known to myself and my God alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life.” Thomas Jefferson

“Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.” John McCain