Politiquotes of the Week 7/15

The debt ceiling and a marriage pledge had everyone talking.

Whoopi Goldberg in Splash - Before she made a splash in Ghost and Sister Act, Goldberg auditioned for the role of Tom Hanks's mermaid lover in Ron Howard's classic rom-com. The producers, obviously, decided to go another direction and cast Darryl Hannah in the part. (Photo: S.Bergman/JPegFoto)
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Jon Huntsman - "Here's a guy who had his lips firmly planted on the president's butt three months ago, and now is speaking ill out of 'em, out of those same lips. Can you trust a guy who turns this quickly? He is somebody who apparently will say whatever it takes to get elected," South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian said of Obama's former ambassador to China and GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman. "Huntsman, not only is he disingenuous, he's disloyal. So I must admit I have a bit more vitriol for him than I might the other candidates. Is that too subtle?"(Photo: Harpootlianlaw.com)/content/dam/betcom/images/2011/03/Politics/0311-politics-spending0331.jpg

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Whoppi Goldberg - "I am starting to feel like there's some kind of racial thing going around," The View host Whoopi Goldberg said in response to Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum signing a controversial marriage pledge. "Could you people get your act together? You don’t know anything about how slaves raised their kids or why people were together. Just don’t add stuff like that if you don't know what you're talking about.” (Photo: S.Bergman/JPegFoto/Getty Images)

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