"If it keeps going up like that, folks, Dick Cheney and President Bush are going to have to car pool

"If it keeps going up like that, folks, Dick Cheney and President Bush are going to have to car pool to work together. Their approach to the solution to these high gas prices is just to make sure that nobody has a job to drive to."
Sen. John Kerry
The presumptive Democratic nominee for president, at a fund-raiser.
"This entire debate ... has occurred in the eye of a social and cultural and even spiritual storm. Massachusetts is hesitant about what the appropriate course of action might be."
House Speaker Thomas Finneran
On gay marriage.