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"I, Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby encourage citizens of Alabama to pray daily for rain and proclaim June 30-July 7, 2007 as Days of Prayer for Rain. During this time, l encourage all Alabamians to pray individually and within their houses of worship for sufficient rain."

--official proclamation by Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (R), June 28

"I'm not proposing an electrified goat fence. I'm just trying--there's an analogy there."

--Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) comparing the fence on the U.S.-Mexico border with goat containment on his farm, quoted in the Mississippi Sun Herald, June 21

"As a Republican governor, I could say, 'Thou shalt shalt  
aux.v. Archaic
A second person singular present tense of shall.
 do this,' and the unions would say, 'Thou shalt go jump in the lake.'"

--Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota on life with the teachers' unions before they started warming to the idea of merit pay, The New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times, June 18

"I wanted the Colombians to come here to give the Afghans something to aspire to. To instill in·still
v.
To pour in drop by drop.



instil·lation n.
 the fact that they have been doing this for years, and it has worked."

--Vincent Balbo, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established in 1973 by President richard m. nixon as part of the Justice Department, thus uniting a number of federal drug agencies that had often worked at cross-purposes.  chief in Kabul, Afghanistan, on the "successful" Colombia model for narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required.  control, quoted in The New York Times, May 16
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