“Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake. The pressure on the Hamas

“Giving Hamas a respite just to regroup, rearm is a mistake. The pressure on the Hamas military machine must continue.”

Mark Regev

A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in regard to Israel’s rejection of a 48-hour truce proposal.

“Anybody that wants to put the race card in there, they’re playing with the wrong group of people. We’re not going to operate that way ... we’re not going to say, ‘Oh, look what a good thing he’s done.’ We’re not going to do it.”

Illinois state Rep. Monique Davis

On Gov. Rod Blagojevich naming a black political trailblazer to Barack Obama’s Senate seat.