Quote(s) for the week.

1) "Responsible gaming is an activity enjoyed by a majority of the citizens of the Commonwealth who participate as a form of voluntary, personal entertainment."
-Governor Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky, who opposes expanded gambling, declaring this week to be Responsible Gaming Education Week.

2) "One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I’d be a great president.
- Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney.

3) "Tehran counts on the victory of Iraqis for the future of the region."
- Iranian President MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, reassuring Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of his cooperation amid U.S. accusations that Tehran is arming Iraqi Shi'ite militants.

4) "It wears on his heart and his soul."
- RON KAUFMAN, a longtime adviser to George H.W. Bush, on Bush's reaction to mounting criticism of his son, George W. Bush.

5) "I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield."
- Senator BARACK OBAMA, defending remarks that he would invade Pakistan if, as President, he had intelligence showing that terrorists were there.

6) "We are tough and we are going to be even tougher. There are not going to be any more excuses for employers."
- RUSS KNOCKE, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, on new rules for illegal immigrants that some labor groups, including the American Federation of Labor, fear will unleash discrimination against Hispanic workers.

7) "This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period."
- San Francisco Giants slugger BARRY BONDS, after breaking Major League Baseball's all-time home-run record with a 756th career homer Tuesday night. Bonds is under suspicion of having used steroids.

8) "If you don't think lobbyists have too much influence in Washington, then I believe you've probably been in Washington too long."
- BARACK OBAMA, Lambasting Hillary Clinton for refusing to forsake campaign donations from special interests.

9) "It's like a bad marriage. It starts nice after the honeymoon and it just gets worse."
- Conservative columnist ROBERT NOVAK, on the media's relationship with the White House, after criticizing the Bush Administration for restricting his press access.

10) "Hope is in order — heavy doses of hope."
- Utah Governor JON HUNTSMAN Jr., as rescue workers attempted to find six coal miners trapped 1,500 ft. below ground after a shaft collapse at the Crandall Canyon Mine.

11) "I definitely know that he cannot be in Afghanistan."
- Afghan President HAMID KARZAI, on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. Probably the only person on earth to think that way.

12) "They really have no idea where they are."
- RACHEL STOHL, senior analyst at the Center for Defense Information, on a report that the Pentagon has lost track of 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005.