In their words
“It’s going to be knockdown, drag-out. It’s going to be in court for 100 years. You can’t take something back that doesn’t belong to you.”
– Osage and Seneca-Cayuga tribal member Richard Crowe of St. Maries, Idaho, objecting to Kootenai County officials’ intention to begin collecting property taxes on non-trust reservation land owned by Indians.
“Any state that claims sport hunting is anything more than recreation will have to prove it, because evidence just isn’t there.”
– Mountain Lion Foundation President Lynn Sadler after a study conducted by his organization concluded that people are no less likely to be attacked by cougars in states where sportsmen can hunt the animal than in those where they can’t.
“We can talk and draw plans and we can speculate all we want, but at some point someone’s going to have to start writing checks. Nobody in higher education is flush with cash right now.”
– North Idaho College spokesman Kent Propst, after developer Marshall Chesrown agreed to sell a former mill site in Coeur d’Alene for $10 million, his acquisition cost, to local colleges that envision a higher-education corridor there.
“I think what this bill can do is, in effect, immunize past crimes. That’s why it’s so dangerous.”
– Attorney Eugene Fiedell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, discussing legislation drafted by the Bush administration to protect policymakers from criminal charges over past authorization of humiliation and degrading treatment of detainees in military custody.
“Not much shocks me after 35 years in this business, but I was shocked.”
– Public Safety Director Mickey Lloyd, of Cobb County, Ga., where an entire police recruit class was fired after it was learned all 20 of them had cheated on a test.
“Think of it as a river. You look upstream to find the source, and downstream to find out where the money is going.”
– Former chief money laundering investigator Cliff Knuckey of Scotland Yard, describing how investigators were tracking financial clues to identify people involved in the plot, foiled last week by British authorities, to take liquid explosives aboard U.S.-bound jetliners and set them off in flight.
“It seems to me in a broad way, if you look at the forest through the trees, it seems to me that what happened since is far worse than what happened that day.”
– Film director Oliver Stone, talking about the aftermath of Sept. 11 in terms of war, terrorism, public debt and constitutional disputes.
“We oversnack our children nowadays. People use food as a calming mechanism. They use food as a comfort measure. Those are two very bad reasons to give your child food.”
– Jamie Calabrese, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ task force on obesity, following a study about weight problems among American children.