Quotations of the day

"I am terribly saddened at the loss of Big Mike. He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of 'The Green Mile.' He was magic. He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned." ? Tom Hanks after the death of actor Michael Clarke Duncan who died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack.

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"On first down he hikes taxes by nearly $2,000 on the average family with kids in order to pay for massive tax cuts for multimillionaires. ... Sounds like unnecessary roughness to me." President Barack Obama in a campaign appearance in Toledo, Ohio saying Republican challenger Mitt Romney should be penalized for "unnecessary roughness" on the middle class and accused him in a ringing labor Day speech of backing higher taxes for millions after opposing the 2009 auto industry bailout.

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"I dare say, before Katrina there's no way that you would have the president and Romney here within days of one another in a storm of this relatively small magnitude ? not to diminish the impact of it (Isaac)." ? Robert Mann, the director of the Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs at Louisiana State University as Presidents, and would-be presidents, can't afford to get panned like George W. Bush after his decision to observe Hurricane Katrina's flooding of New Orleans first in a flyover in Air Force One instead of putting his feet on the ground, giving critics an opening to argue that he was indifferent to the suffering below.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/quotations-day-070627283.html

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