"At this very moment, we're not losing anybody, because where would you go?"
          -Attorney General Rob McKenna, telling a state salary commission that he'd like to pay his lawyers more, but that the recession has curtailed turnover for now.

"I've never been flipped off more times in my life."
          -new state Rep. Kevin Parker, R-Spokane, recalling what it was like to stand at an intersection waving signs during the campaign.

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