‘My feeling is that [Illinois lawmakers] are hypocritical. They allow the tobacco companies to make and sell them, then use the tax money on the sale of the cigarettes but dictate where I smoke.’
–Shirley O’Neal, a 64-year-old retiree from Cahokia
‘Today, I think, was basically an up. … I feel good about it.’
–Gov. Rod Blagojevich, after the Illinois House rejected his plan for a gross receipts tax by a vote of 107-0
‘At the moment, I still say as I said before, by algebraic implications, the odds are 2 to 1 we won?t have a recession.’
–Alan Greenspan, former Federal Reserve chairman, in comments recorded at a Merrill Lynch & Co. conference in Singapore
‘It?s really a problem of individual motorists not understanding the aerodynamics of what wind can do to a mattress.’
–Scott Osberg, director of research for AAA?s Foundation for Traffic Safety, on the more than 25,000 accidents a year caused by litter dumped by motorists or that falls out of vehicles
