NEWSBLAH

Newsblah. Timely quotes from today's headlines. Following people in the news since 2008.

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“Republicans have a responsibility to be candid and offer better ideas for a path forward”

~ Bobby Jindal [Source: Examiner.com]

“I’m just excited to be playing baseball,” … “Everything else is confusing, but baseball is what I do best. It’s what I get paid to do, and I’m just happy to be doing it again”

~ Alex Rodriguez [Source: New York Daily News]

“Nothing has changed our efforts to go after terrorists, and nothing will change those efforts”

~ Leon Panetta [Source: Washington Post]

“Electric vehicles are the future of transportation and the Bay Area is the testing ground for the technology”

~ Mayor Gavin Newsom [Source: Bizjournals.com]

“Following that, the department will move ahead with a solicitation for RD&D leases, based on sound policy and public input”

~ Ken Salazar [Source: Environment News Service]

“I’d like to say I’m really creative and visionary, but the truth is, I just read our e-mails on the ‘Dr. Phil’ show”

~ Dr Phil McGraw [Source: San Jose Mercury News]

“I will provide the very best intelligence, independent judgments not influenced by the politics of the situation, but truly real, objective information”

~ Leon Panetta [Source: Dallas Morning News]

“We can protect this country, we can get the information we need, we can provide for the security of the American people and we can abide by the law,” … “I’m absolutely convinced that we can do that”

~ Leon Panetta [Source: The Associated Press]

“I want to become better than I was, and this (surgery) will help me in that process”

~ Tiger Wood [Source: USA Today]

“I was actually just having a conversation with David Ortiz about that”

~ Josh Beckett [Source: International Herald Tribune]

“I thought the fans were ok, actually,” … “I’d like to invite a bunch of them to Fenway this summer”

~ Alex Rodriguez [Source: Tampabay.com]

“As long as these matters remain unresolved, it will be impossible for the transitional government to move forward with the reforms that this country so desperately needs”

~ Morgan Tsvangirai [Source: Bloomberg]

“The promotion of human rights is an essential aspect of our global foreign policy, and something we discussed candidly with the Chinese leadership”

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton [Source: MSNBC]

“We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece of junk”

~ Steve Jobs [Source: Macworld]