“You just wish the Supreme Court could spend a week in public housing and then come out with

“You just wish the Supreme Court could spend a week in public housing and then come out with this decision.”

Mayor Gavin Newsom

Of San Francisco, criticizing the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns.

“It is an offense to the Paraguayan people.”

Paraguayan Sen. Domingo Laino

On U.S. Ambassador James Cason releasing a CD of himself singing Paraguayan folk songs in the indigenous Guarani language.

“No bees, no crops.”

Robert D. Edwards

North Carolina farmer, testifying before a Congressional subcommittee that he had to cut his cucumber acreage in half because of the lack of bees available to rent. Beekeepers have lost 36 percent of their managed colonies this year.