“I don’t want to wait until Obama. I think we can do it now.”

“I don’t want to wait until Obama. I think we can do it now.”

Democratic Rep. Barney Frank

Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, on releasing the rest of the $700 billion financial bailout fund before President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration.

“It just pushes it beyond fathomable. ”

Lt. Mark Gagan

Of the Richmond, Calif., police department, on a woman who police said was jumped by four men, taunted for being a lesbian, repeatedly raped and left naked outside an abandoned apartment building.

“There was never going to be smiles.”

Joseph Tacopina

Attorney for actor Lillo Brancato, after Brancato was cleared in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman.