— Columbia University sociologist Todd Gitlin, on the burning of an American flag by Occupy Oakland protesters. “He (Mitt Romney) can bury me for a very short amount of time with four or five or six times as much money.
“He (Mitt Romney) can bury me for a very short amount of time with four or five or six times as much money. In the long run, the Republican Party is not going to nominate … a liberal Republican.”
— Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, as Gingrich looked past today’s Florida GOP primary, where rival Romney is heavily favored, to regroup.
“I’m quite confident that the general view is that violence of this sort … is contrary to the spirit of the movement and should be renounced.”
— Columbia University sociologist Todd Gitlin, on the burning of an American flag by Occupy Oakland protesters.
