Quotes for the week.

I hope to leave the November elections alone .. very soon, but until then here are quotes of the week:

1) "With an increasingly diverse population in the United States, we [Republicans] rely too much on white guys for our voters."
- Ken Mehlman, Outgoing Republican National Committee Chairman, on an Epiphany on the mid term elections.

2) "Senator Trent Lott [once ousted as a Senate leader due to accusations of racial insensitivity] won election... as Senate Minority Whip. [He] was disappointed to learn this doesn't mean he gets to whip minorities."
— Seth Myers, in a not-too-funny attempt at humor on a "Weekend Update" skit on Saturday Night Live.

3)(a) "It's worse than a civil war. In a civil war, you at least know which factions are fighting each other. We don't even know that anymore. It's so bloody confused."
— A senior Iraqi government official in an interview a few hours after a National Security Council spokesman, Gordon Johndroe, said that Iraq is not in a civil war.

3)(b) "I can say that Iraqi forces will be ready, fully ready, to...command its own forces, and I can tell you that by next June our forces will be ready."
— Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, making a statement that warms the hearts of many Americans concerned about the Iraqi war, in an interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC.