Quotables

‘Other than his gender, the guy has flip-flopped on everything, and I don’t put that past him either.’

Florida GOP strategist Ana Navarro on Florida Democratic candidate for governor Charlie Crist, who was the Republican governor of the state from 2007 to 2011.

‘I’m just tanning. Please, keep back.’

Warning drawn in the sand by a police officer at Rockaway Beach in New York to protect a yearling harp seal. Dozens of juvenile harp seals, whose normal habitat is the far north Atlantic, have washed ashore in New York as a result of frigid winter temperatures.

‘I would trade places with them in a heartbeat if that could help.’

Peter Lanza on meeting with the parents of a child whom his son Adam Lanza had killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. The parents told Lanza they forgave his son. Lanza gave his first interview since the school shooting in December 2012: “I know Adam would have killed me in a heartbeat, if he’d had the chance,” he told The New Yorker.

‘The problem with the power of the purse is you have to have the courage to use it. So far, we have not.’

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, criticizing Republican leaders for allowing, among other things, a 13-month, unlimited debt ceiling increase.

‘The wedding turned into a funeral.’

Ahmed al-Rawi, a relative of an Iraqi groom after a suicide bomb in Anbar Province on March 13 killed members of the groom’s wedding party as they were on their way to the wedding.