The inaugural has sort of become a metaphor for the whole political process and how money has distorted it,

These are not accidents. If they're gonna do that, I want their pink slip.

It's clear they are trying to button up some of their previous problems with PR and to deflect criticism about all of their purchasing of former U.S. officials. It's a move that is clearly designed to make them look like a regular company.

A bunch of us were appalled, ... I don't want to be represented by that. It's not Christian. ... And we're certainly not thinking about shooting government agents that come to our door.

We have been lied to in every military escapade in the last 50 or 60 years, without exception.

We basically have a situation with two classes here: a sort of political and economic class, intermingling with each other at their megabucks-level inaugural galas, and the average citizens, who at best get to watch the inaugural from hundreds of yards away.

We're not very deep, and tonight it just looked like we were tired. We got behind and had to press on weak legs.

We didn't shoot it well and we did a poor job of going to the boards. We had a lot of openings (to get the ball inside), but the guys on the perimeter just didn't see them.

We realize what a personal friend she could become and did become to so many of us, and what a friend she was to Bonita Springs and Southwest Florida.

I thought it would be a nice chance to see a lot of local bands perform.