`He can run Mickey Mouse if he wants to, but he won’t be able to raise a dime for her or himself.’
–Chicago Ald. William Beavers (left), about Sandi Jackson, the wife of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), who is contemplating running for alderman in Beavers’ 7th Ward
`Beavers is a dinosaur. His insider political deals are reminiscent of the Jurassic period. He said he’s tired. He doesn’t want to work too hard. And he wants to live the good life. It is my goal to help Mr. Beavers achieve the retirement he justly deserves.’
–U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (right), on Beavers’ political future.
“It’s kind of a `get out of Dodge’ kind of thing.”
–Vincent Illuzzi, a state’s attorney in Essex County, Vermont, on a sentence that banishes Francis Robb for three years from his home village of Gilman.
“There’s just this loud sucking sound in the market now.”
–J.C. Sparling, an executive vice president at Mercator Risk Services Inc, an insurance brokerage, on the high cost of disaster insurance.
“Hypocrisy is certainly rampant here in the house today.”
— Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) about a House bill that passed Tuesday that would allow online lotteries and Internet betting on horseracing but would crack down on other kinds of sports betting and casino games and card games like poker.
