Some of these things appear, on the surface, to be very minor. In initial interviews, it's more or less the opportunity to talk and some negative comments sometimes that the players have received.

It's kind of a simple little community thing there to help the firemen out.

Of course, we're glad to help out. The firefighters are here helping out our community. We appreciate that.

It's definitely not going to be a normal day. I'm not going to cry over a few lost sales.

The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.

I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.