Speakeasy

Published December 4, 2007 5:00am ET



It’s a reminder that there has to be a calming influence in the office.”

– Adam Sharp, communications director for Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., explaining to the Baton Rouge Advocate the stuffed replica of the Muppet character Beaker he keeps above his desk

 

“We must be two desperate housewives.”

James Carville, recalling a comment his wife, Mary Matalin, made to Kathleen Matthews (married to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews) when the four were hanging out in Los Angeles recently