“Oh, it would be a blast if they were all this loud, if they smelled this good. I love that smell of the emissions.” Sarah Palin, on a motorcycle at the Pentagon during her now-quitted patriotic tour, answering a reporter who asked if all of Palin’s events would be “this noisy.”

Sarah Palin “should not be on vacation. She should be in summer school.” Bill Maher last month, following Palin’s “Revere” problem and bus tour.

“I think Michele Bachmann has benefited immensely from not being Sarah Palin.” Michael Gerson

“I may not always get my words right, but I know that my heart is right.” Michele Bachmann

“There is hope for America. It lies in heaven, and we will find it on our knees.” Rick Perry

“Conservatism is an act of creation and love…the negation of ideology…We’ll move every mountain; we will meet every challenge and we will strive towards the light of a blossoming dawn that is our newest birth of freedom because we know our future is bright, because the future is: You.” Recent entrant to the 2012 GOP field Thaddeus McCotter, employing his very best grape kool-aid whisper at C-PAC last year.

“…the president’s failed. He did not cause this recession but he made it worse.” Mitt Romney, July 4, in Amherst, MA.

“I didn’t say that things were worse. What I said was that the economy hasn’t turned around.” Mitt Romney, July 7, responding to a reporter in Allentown, PA, who asked if Romney had said President Obama had made the economy worse.

“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money, and I can’t remember what the second one is.” Mark Hanna