Monday, February 10, 2014

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

"Obamacare makes you lazy!" - Roy Blunt, US Senator, who will only work 126 days this year.

Lorna Brett Howard, N.Y. Democratic activist
...dismissed concerns that the tax increase [for Mayor deBlasio's proposed universal Pre-K] — a difference of $530 for every $100,000 in income over the threshold — was burdensome. “That is one trip on your private plane to St. Bart’s,” she said. -- NY Times

80,000 at N.C. protest 
Rev, William Barber II, president of the North Carolina NAACP
“You may have thought you were going to discourage us, but instead you have encouraged us. The more you push us back, the more we will fight to go forward. The more you try to oppress us, the more you will inspire us.” -- The Nation
Marybeth Beller, a political scientist at Marshall University in Huntington, W.Va.
“I don’t think we’re going to have too many people running in 2014 in West Virginia who are going to be talking about anti-regulation.” -- NYT, One Month After Toxic Spill, West Virginians Face ‘Crisis of Confidence’
 Kathleen Ann, Freelance writer from New England 
I used to have a house. I used to go on vacations. I used to shop at department stores, get my hair done and even enjoy pedicures. Now, I don't. I'm a member of the American "Used-to-Haves." -- Huffington

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