Quotes of note…

All via Google Quotes:

“This president has us engaged in three wars — one of necessity in Afghanistan and one of choice in Iraq. But he also has been at war on labor’s house since the day he was elected.”
– Joe Biden

“I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq.”
– Sarah Palin

“Today, my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush administration.”
– Barack Obama

“I do not want to keep our troops in Iraq a minute longer than necessary to secure our interests there. ”
– John “Crash” McCain

… and via fivethirtyeight.com:

Just ahead, over the rolling wheatfields all golden beneath the distant snows of Estes, I’d be seeing old Denver at last. I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was “Wow!”

– Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”