Education Secretary Margaret Spellings: “I talk about No Child Left Behind like Ivory soap: It’s 99.9 percent pure or something…There’s not much needed in the way of change.”
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq: “a series of catastrophes that results in victory.”
Spokeswoman Kathy Walt on Perry’s lapse in ethics: “Gov. Perry has the strongest ethics policy that any Texas governor has ever had.
Spokesman Robert Black on Perry’s fasttracking of 17 dirty coal plants: “The governor has a strong record on the environment”.