Old Fogey's Quotes for Friday

"Convicts can marry their pen pals, and although we've spent our lives together, we're being told our love doesn't count."
Curtis Woolbright, regarding the NY Supreme Court decision against gay marriage
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"All but two of the firms in our analysis have increased the allocation of their contributions to Republican candidates so far in the 2006 election cycle as compared to 2004, suggesting that the major investment banks, at least in the aggregate, are not pushing for a bluer Congress this November."
Article in the NYT, on the political donations by Wall Street
Wall Street Blues? Not Quite

"It also gives Mr. Bush an opportunity to do what he does best: act like a candidate, though one who is not running for anything."
Sheral Gay Stolberg, in NYT aticle on the president holding his press conference in Chicago
Bush Heads to Chicago to Spotlight Good Economic News

"We've got Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad."
Defense Department investigator, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center on the infiltration of the army by skin heads and neo-Nazis
Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts

"I think this is the equivalent for the West of what hurricanes are for the Gulf Coast. This is an illustration of a natural disaster that is accelerating in intensity as a result, I feel, of global warming."
Fire ecologist Steven Running at the University of Montana in Missoula on the increasing problem of forest fires in the West
Worsening Fire Seasons Linked to Climate Change

"Great idea! If these same strategists had been around in 1932 during the Depression, they'd probably have urged President Hoover to run for reelection on the strength of his economic policies."
Rosa Brooks, in LATimes editorial on Republicans making anti-terrorism their "campaign cornerstone"
Rosa Brooks: That's the GOP's big gun?