Notable and Quotable

“I have heard of driving while black and even shopping while black but now even going to your own home while black is a new low in police community affairs.”

Rev. Al Sharpton

Responding to the arrest of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation’s pre-eminent black scholar.

“This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s ... economy.”

President Barack Obama

Recounting South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint’s comment that stopping Obama’s bid for health care overhaul could be the president’s “Waterloo.”