Simultaneously sycophantic yet self-aggrandizing quote of the day:

She listens to everyone and manages actually to hear not just what’s said but what isn’t said. And, having heard all the notes and half-notes, she emerges with a melody that harmonizes all the tunes she has heard but that’s distinctly her own.
—Laurence Tribe on Elena Kagan in the Crimson

Boneheaded quote of the day:

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.
—The always articulate Joe Biden on Barack Obama in the New York Observer (the entire article is well worth reading)

Romantic contretemps quotes of the day:

These are statements I consider damaging to my dignity…To my husband and to the public man, I therefore ask for a public apology, not having received one privately.
—Veronica Lario to her husband, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, after her husband of 27 years publicly flirted with other women, including an alleged proposal of marriage.

Your dignity should not be an issue: I will guard it like a precious material in my heart even when thoughtless jokes come out of my mouth. But marriage proposals, no, believe me, I have never made one to anyone. Forgive me, however, I beg of you, and take this public testimony of private pride that submits to your anger as an act of love.
—Berlusconi’s simultaneously shameless yet charming public apology to his wife

Incidentally, if you do the math, that would make Berlusconi 43 years old when he married his then-23 year old Veronica…..