Quotes of note
"I wouldn't call it a spending spree. These are more like natural wrap-up costs as I was leaving Congress."
MARTIN T. MEEHAN, on his expenses in his last months in Congress, which totaled $145,765 in the final quarter
"That's out with Adam Smith and in with Karl Marx."
Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton's economic plan
"It has become apparent that the attorney general has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements."
Four Democratic SENATORS, calling for a special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales perjured himself over the firings of US attorneys
"I don't trust you. "
Senator Judiciary Chairman PATRICK LEAHY, to Gonzales
"I'm not sure it would be possible to find anybody."
CNN's ANDERSON COOPER, after Representative Dennis Kucinich remarked that "they didn't put anybody to the left of me" on stage at Monday night's CNN/YouTube debate
"You know, when I'm catching a cab in Manhattan in the past, I think I've given my credentials." "He shared his beer, weed, and money, but most of all, he shared his unquenchable love of life." "You know what they found the last time Bush had a colonoscopy? His head."
BARACK OBAMA, answering charges at Monday's debate that he may not be "black enough"
JACK HARSHMAN, former bandmate of Mr. Butch, the Allston area homeless man who died July 12 in a scooter accident
JAY LENO 
