Politiquotes of the Week: Nov. 4

Herman Cain is the week’s top topic.

Michele Bachmann - “This is the year when we can’t have any surprises with our candidate,” Rep. Michele Bachmann said during a campaign stop this week in Marshalltown, Iowa. (Photo: Steve Pope/Getty Images)

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Michele Bachmann - “This is the year when we can’t have any surprises with our candidate,” Rep. Michele Bachmann said during a campaign stop this week in Marshalltown, Iowa. (Photo: Steve Pope/Getty Images)

Herman Cain - "Don't even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about, okay? Don't even bother," Herman Cain said to questions about sexual harassment claims from persistent reporters during a campaign visit with the conservative group, Docs4PatientCare. "What did I say? Excuse me. Excuse me! What part of 'no' don't people understand?"(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Herman Cain - "Don't even bother asking me all of these other questions that you all are curious about, okay? Don't even bother," Herman Cain said to questions about sexual harassment claims from persistent reporters during a campaign visit with the conservative group, Docs4PatientCare. "What did I say? Excuse me. Excuse me! What part of 'no' don't people understand?"(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Ann Coulter - “Our Blacks are so much better than their Blacks,” she said. “To become a Black Republican, you don’t just roll into it. You’re not going with the flow,” she told Fox News host Sean Hannity after news broke about sexual harassment claims made against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. “You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that’s why we have very impressive Blacks in our party.”(Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)

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Ann Coulter - “Our Blacks are so much better than their Blacks,” she said. “To become a Black Republican, you don’t just roll into it. You’re not going with the flow,” she told Fox News host Sean Hannity after news broke about sexual harassment claims made against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain. “You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that’s why we have very impressive Blacks in our party.”(Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images)

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Reince Priebus - "We're not the Sherlock Holmes of the presidential primary field," said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in an appearance on NBC’s Today Show on whether he would investigate Herman Cain’s claims that Rick Perry’s camp spread the news of the sexual harassment claims made against him.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Condoleezza Rice - “I know how to be Black. I've been Black all my life. And again, if you look at a Black person and you say that person has to think in a particular way, I don't care if you are white or you are Black and you say that, then you've got a prejudice,” former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said on the issue of race and Black conservatism in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I simply say to people, you know, I'll think what I think and if you have a problem with that, it's your problem, not mine.”(Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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Condoleezza Rice - “I know how to be Black. I've been Black all my life. And again, if you look at a Black person and you say that person has to think in a particular way, I don't care if you are white or you are Black and you say that, then you've got a prejudice,” former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said on the issue of race and Black conservatism in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I simply say to people, you know, I'll think what I think and if you have a problem with that, it's your problem, not mine.”(Photo: Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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Rick Perry - “The establishment doesn't like me. The corporate tax lawyers in Washington D.C., they hate me the way, you know, the devil hates holy water,” said Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Fox News’ Hannity about his “Cut, Balance and Grow” tax plan. “They do not want to see me come into Washington, D.C. because I'm going to take a wrecking ball to Washington when it comes to those tax issues, when it comes to those regulations, and Americans are going to be the winners."(Photo: Steve Pope/Getty Images)

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Rick Perry - “The establishment doesn't like me. The corporate tax lawyers in Washington D.C., they hate me the way, you know, the devil hates holy water,” said Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Fox News’ Hannity about his “Cut, Balance and Grow” tax plan. “They do not want to see me come into Washington, D.C. because I'm going to take a wrecking ball to Washington when it comes to those tax issues, when it comes to those regulations, and Americans are going to be the winners."(Photo: Steve Pope/Getty Images)

Rudy Giuliani - "I believe that Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement," former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said at the Defending the American Dream Summit. "It would not have happened … but for his class warfare. … He supported it. He agrees with it. He sympathizes with it. And as it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Time Warner)

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Rudy Giuliani - "I believe that Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement," former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said at the Defending the American Dream Summit. "It would not have happened … but for his class warfare. … He supported it. He agrees with it. He sympathizes with it. And as it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Time Warner)