"I think we have called ACORN a quasi-criminal organization. And we have done so not to be cute, not doing it lightly, but because there is a record here."

"I'm the underdog. I've always been the underdog from the beginning."

-- Sen. John McCain

"The financial system will not collapse -- the government won't let it."

-- Economists Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Perry Mehrling in the Washington Post