Speakeasy

Published July 28, 2008 4:00am ET



I don’t like the term ‘war of ideas,’ even though I am the supreme allied commander. We need other ideas for names; it’s too bellicose.”


– Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy James Glassman, at the New America Foundation on Friday

 

“Give a man an earmark, and you have fed him for today, …”


– Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., on an earmark that would provide $13,395,000 to provide relief to fishermen in Suffolk County, Mass.