Quote of the Day Archive

"It's one of the most outrageous things I've seen this group working on behalf of Susan Collins is attacking 67,000 Mainers working in labor unions and attacking Tom Allen and somehow portraying them as being linked to organized crime."

-- Carol Andrews, a spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Tom Allen’s U.S. Senate campaign, on an attack ad from the Employee Freedom Action Committee that claims Allen has supported what the ad refers to as labor union schemes.

"I want to promise you, as president of the United States, I will always, always put my country first. We may disagree on issues from time to time, and that’s healthy and important, but I’ve spend my life in the service of this country, and always, always putting my country first."

-- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain on his patriotism during a public appearance at the Maine Military Museum in South Portland.

"Obviously, (a penny's) not going to be breaking the bank, but I think the concept needs to be looked at and debated and considered."

-- State Sen. Bill Diamond (D-Windham) on whether the state legislature should stop indexing Maine's gas and diesel taxes to inflation.

"We are frustrated and we're angry, and we're going to use every tool in our arsenal to repeal this law," she said. "This is not over for us."

-– Kathleen McGee, the lead petitioner in the campaign against Maine's "Real I.D."driver's license regulations, on her group's decision to continue their efforts after the deadline to submit the necessary number of signatures to put the repeal on the November ballot.

"The Democratic Party's continued efforts to challenge the validity of Herbert Hoffman's candidacy shows they and Tom Allen have gone from concerned to desperate to keep Mr. Hoffman off the November ballot."

-- Maine Republican Party Chairman Mark Ellis on the state Democratic party's efforts to challenge Hoffman's
candidacy as an independent for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Susan Collins. 

"The concern is that we want — when someone calls 911 — they get an answer," he said. "There have been several times — in Cumberland County, in Penobscot County — when that has not happened."

– State Sen. Bill Diamond (D-Windham), chair of the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, on recent failures in the state's 911 emergency phone dispatch system.

"It's a lot to do to run for office."

-- Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, a former state representative, on numerous would-be candidates who have decided to drop out before the July 28 filing deadline.

"I'm campaigning with my feet and my Prius."

-- Independent U.S. Senate candidate Herbert Hoffman

"I'm not going to decide this case based on a shadow."

-- Kennebec County Superior Court Justice Donald Marden, responding to Democratic Party Attorney Daniel Walker's assertion that the three proven cases of U.S. Senate candidate Herb Hoffman violating his oath casts "a shadow" over his whole petition gathering system, and not invalidating it would set bad precedent for election law.

"Hard working families and businesses across the New England states are struggling under the rising cost of energy," Baldacci said in a statement. "This summit was an important step in mapping out the short- and long-term strategies we can take together to provide needed relief to our residents and businesses."

-- Gov. John Baldacci, on a summit he attended with three other New England governors in Boston yesterday to discuss energy issues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.