“You can pretty much say or do anything you want, because at the end of the day you don’t have to make it add up. When you’re governor, it has to all add up.” — Gov. Mark Parkinson (in photo), comparing Gov.-elect Sam Brownback’s experience of being a U.S. senator to being a governor
“I know enough about myself to know it would be ridiculous to say there’s a zero percent chance.” — Parkinson again, on whether he might seek public office one day
“I’m suffering from CMS-induced paranoia. I hope you can treat that as we go further.” — Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., complaining to Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about the lack of time to question him at a Senate hearing
“If this were a reasonable, marketable idea, one that will truly entertain the American viewing public, why did we never get treated to a season of ‘Bob Dole’s Kansas’?” — Daily Caller writer Renee James, questioning the value of the “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” TV series
