Politics

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"What happens to the oil revenues?" Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said. "And if you're in the north and all of a sudden you think a line's going to be drawn and you're going to lose 80 percent of the oil revenues, you're not a very enthusiastic participant. What are the deals that can possibly be made that will limit the potential of violence?" (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel takes some ribbing regarding his comment about someday wanting to be mayor of Chicago in April at the sixth annual Richard J. Daley Global Cities Forum in Chicago.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Joe Miller (center) talks with supporters in Anchorage, Alaska. His defeat of Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the state's primary is partly attributed to "tea party" support.

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CREDIT two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines two lines. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, left, meets with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, after he made remarks at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Kaine was in Philadelphia to talk about the party's efforts for the upcoming midterm elections. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS District Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, with D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, greets President Obama Aug. 6 after a presidential address in the city. Mr. Fenty says he wants the president's endorsement.

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President Barack Obama departs the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010, for a day-trip to Cleveland, Ohio where he will talk about the economy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama prepares to board Air Force One before his departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Sept., 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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** FILE ** David Cameron (left), now Great Britain's prime minister, greets his father, Ian, during a visit to the Sun Inn in Swindon, England, in March 2010. The elder Mr. Cameron suffered a stroke while on vacation in France and died on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Johnny Green/PA, File)

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Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, second left, is congratulated on his prize by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and the former head of the state-funded body which manages the archives of the former East German secret police Stasi Joachim Gauck, second right, as Potsdam's mayor Jann Jakobs looks on after receiving the M100 Media Prize 2010 in Potsdam near Berlin, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Westergaard drew the most controversial of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, which many Muslims considered offensive. (AP Photo/Odd Andersen, pool)

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Romanian Gypsy leader Iulian Radulescu on Wednesday compared French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Romania's pro-Nazi wartime leader following the expulsion of hundreds of Gypsies from France. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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A Sri Lankan opposition supporter shouts slogans during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan opposition supporters burn an effigy of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as policemen block them during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan government supporters carry portraits of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as they rally around the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow the president to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lankan opposition supporters are blocked by police during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament on Wednesday began debating a controversial amendment to the country's constitution that would allow President Mahinda Rajapaksa to hold unlimited number of terms, a move critics say could lead to a dictatorship. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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Fireworks light up the sky near the Municipal Council building as the government celebrates the passage of the constitutional amendment in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. Sri Lanka's Parliament voted to eliminate term limits for the president Wednesday, a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)

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A Sri Lankan woman who supports the government sits next to portraits of President Mahinda Rajapaksha as presidential boosters rally around Parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

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** FILE ** In this Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, file photo, soldiers from the anti-terrorism force of the Yemeni Defense Ministry take part in an exercise at a training camp at the Sarif district, north of the capital San'a, Yemen. U.S. special operations forces are expanding their training of the Yemeni military as the Obama administration broadens its program to counter terrorism in countries reluctant to harbor a visible American military presence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

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Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Jones plans to burn copies of the Koran on church grounds to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States that provoked the Afghan war. (AP Photo/John Raoux)