Stolen Quote of the Day

"Just so we don't have to go through this whole resignation thing again," one ballsy reporter asked, "have you ever patronized a prostitute?" Paterson thought for a minute. "Only the lobbyists," he said.

-Soon to be New York Governor David Paterson

Stolen from Salon.

Quote of the Day

"[Ben Stein, in the new pro-Creationist documentary Expelled] uses "straw man" tactics to attack, mainly The Origin of the Species, as Darwin wrote it in 1859. That's like a music critic reviewing "the latest" by only referring to Edison's wax cylinders."

-- Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Moore, who while not being James Bond, did manage to sneak into a private screening he had been uninvited to, in his review of the film.

Quote of the Day

"It was close, but in the end I went for Obama."

Barack Obama, after casting his ballot for himself today

Quote of the Day

Ted Kennedy, on Attorney General Michael Mukasey's refusal to acknowledge that waterboarding is torture:

"[It's]like saying you're opposed to stealing but not quite sure that bank robbery qualifies."

(When asked if he would consider it torture if he himself were subjected to waterboarding, Mukasey replied "I would feel that it was.")