Quotes of the day

No one really liked you when you were making $45 million a year. How do you think they’ll treat you when you’re poor?--Michael Lewis

These days, the most dangerous place for Chuck Schumer in Washington is between Susan Collins and a camera.--Kimberley Strassel

[Treasury Secretary] Geithner's performance ... was pathetic. He was an empty suit with an empty plan.--Ed Yardeni

You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.--Michelle Obama on President Bush's stimulus package (not her husband's)

Krugman calls his book and his blog The Conscience of a Liberal. What conscience? If we can recall bad peanut butter, why can't we also recall a Nobel Prize?--Alan Reynolds