Two Qs OTD -

because I couldn't choose between them:

The most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen — more than Beijing, the capital of a communist state!

-- Aiden Burley, Conservative Member of Parliament

And....

To much of the world, the [NHS] nurses probably appeared an odd inclusion, the equivalent a bunch of D.M.V. employees showing up during a half-time number at the Super Bowl. To the British, they were a reminder of what makes them inscrutable to China, and, for that matter, to Mitt Romney.

-- Lauren Collins, New Yorker writer