“And at the end of the day, it’s a tough sport. You’re going to take shots in the head, and you’re going to get concussions from time to time. But no one made me play football. No one put a gun to my head and said, ‘You have to play football.’ It’s what I love to do, and I knew the risks and the benefits going into it.”
— Jay Cutler, Bears quarterback
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“That visiting room has to be one of the saddest places on Earth though. All those little kids visiting their dads. It breaks your heart.”
— Patti Blagojevich, former Illinois first lady, in a posting on her Facebook page after visiting the Colorado prison where former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is serving 14 years for corruption
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“I don’t know that. I’ll ask Michelle when I get home.”
— President Barack Obama, when quizzed by hosts on “The View” for the name of the “controversial sex book that’s on millions of women’s bedside tables.” Answer: “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
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“America is too great a country with too great a future with the content they are talking about. And it’s insulting to the president; it’s insulting to the country.”
— Rahm Emanuel, Chicago mayor, reacting to reports of a plan offered to Joe Ricketts, patriarch of the Cubs family ownership, to run attack ads linking President Barack Obama to his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright
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“I want to make it very clear, I repudiate that effort. I think it’s the wrong course for a PAC or a campaign.”
— Mitt Romney, presumptive GOP presidential nominee, on the Ricketts story
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“I hope they’re as successful with this campaign as the Cubs are in baseball.”
— Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic leader, reacting to the Ricketts story
