“I’ll be a tireless advocate for your agenda and a tight-fisted custodian of the people’s money.”—JOSH BOLTEN ’80, speaking at the May 22 White House news conference in which President George W. Bush announced that he was nominating Bolten to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The Senate unanimously approved his appointment on June 26

“It’s been a busy day, but it’s great to blog here on Larry Lessig’s blog.”—HOWARD DEAN, former Vermont Governor and a Democratic presidential candidate, writing on July 14, the first of several days that he took over Law Professor Lawrence Lessig’s Web journal, or blog. Lessig has not endorsed a candidate in the 2004 election, but has invited all of them to participate in online discussions with his readers.

“In an odd way, the military recruits for Wal-Mart by denying gay and lesbian workers one of the few alternatives that they might have to a life in low-end retail. Seen in that light, Wal-Mart’s change in policy, though welcome, has a disturbing, ironic quality.”—TOBIAS BARRINGTON WOLFF, Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford Law School and Acting Professor at UC Davis Law School, in an op-ed in the August 6 San Jose Mercury News. While commending Wal-Mart for its policy prohibiting discrimination against employees based on sexual orientation, he notes that its entry-level jobs offer little chance for career development. While the military offers a chance for advancement, openly gay people are barred from enlisting. 

“One of the important things about the commission is that it has accumulated a lot of expertise and experience in analyzing antitrust issues. “There are a number of ways in which that can be useful for the antitrust bar and the courts. One of them is to use more administrative litigation and another is in the opposite circumstance—where we don’t bring a case.”—SUSAN CREIGHTON ’84, speaking with a reporter from the Daily Deal on August 7, her first day as Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition. As a partner at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in the 1990s, she played a critical role in persuading the government to bring the landmark antitrust action against Microsoft.

“Is this not a fundamental right of his supporters to have his name there?”—ROBIN JOHANSEN ’77, a lawyer representing Governor Gray Davis, speaking at a news conference on August 4 after she, Michael Kahn ’73 (MA ’73) (right), and Kathleen Purcell ’77 (BA ’74) filed a lawsuit charging that it was unconstitutional for Davis’s name to be excluded from the list of candidates in California’s recall election. The state Supreme Court rejected the argument three days later.