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April 04, 2008

"You tell me you have a shortage and then we try and show you how to take care of a shortage by giving bonuses, and the representatives of the teachers' unions are opposed to that ... We're doing everything we can for alternative education. You don't see that to be on the front burner for any of them. When is it going to be about the children? ... Let's look at some different things we can change to maybe get more people through non-traditional ways into the math and sciences, but I've got no one coming forward to help on that. But when it comes time to talking about money, money, money, I got no problem with people helping me on that." - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, the latest in a long line of Democrat governors who have found themselves at odds with the school-employee labor unions

"The editors of National Review regretfully announce that their patience with President Lyndon B. Johnson is exhausted." - The first line in the issue of National Review published after President Johnson was sworn in.

"How do you get a term-limited legislator off your porch? Pay him for the pizza." - Joke in the 2008 production of "The Gridiron," an annual show performed by the Oklahoma City Gridiron Club

"Well, that wasn't in the talking points." - A member of the press corps, after Sen. Tom Coburn told reporters that some of his Senate colleagues have "reproductive organs the size of BBs that won't allow them to do the right thing"

"Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness." - Samuel Adams

"Government's greatest moral obligation is to ensure the safety and well-being of its citizens. In the state Senate we have in the past, and will continue to make public safety a top priority when writing the state budget." - State Senate President Pro Tempore Mike Morgan. A quick look at FY-2008 appropriations by committee reveals that this "greatest moral obligation" (Judiciary/Public Safety) received 11.4 percent of the budget pie-trailing Public Health (16.4 percent) and Education (54.1 percent)

" ... horrible, stupid tax cuts." - Journalistic gadfly Frosty Troy, commenting on tax reductions enacted by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Brad Henry the last few years

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