FINAL WORDS

‘We’ll be together like two first-time lovers.’

– Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.),

insisting that, in November’s election, there will be no hard feelings from the bitter Democratic presidential fight underway in his state

‘I can’t think that far ahead because it’s bad luck. I’m very superstitious and I don’t want to be presumptuous. But he is an extraordinary man.’

– Hillary Rodham Clinton,

during an appearance at Cal State Northridge, on whether she might ask Barack Obama to be her running mate if she wins the Democratic nomination