Briefing

'Don't muck it up.'

1. PRESIDENT OBAMA, warning Congress not to stymie the burgeoning economic recovery

'Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California.'

2. U.S. NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, in a 2-1 ruling that struck down Proposition 8, California's 2008 ban on same-sex marriage, as unconstitutional

'My husband cannot f---ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.'

3. GISELE BUNDCHEN, wife of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, responding to a heckler after the Patriots' 21-17 Super Bowl loss...