In their words
“No one wants to try this case twice, including me.”
– First District Judge Fred Gibler, agreeing to another delay in the Kootenai County trial of triple-murder suspect Joseph Duncan, whose attorney maintains he needs more time to prepare.
“I think she’s the president’s handler.”
– Holmes Elementary School third-grader Seth Rose, asked during a Spokane visit by U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings if he knew who she was.
“Everyone thought it was a joke because there was no blood. All the freshmen were like laughing. Are you kidding me? It was pretty scary.”
– Roseburg (Ore.) High School sophomore Dalton Hedlund, describing the incident in which one of his classmates
shot and wounded another student last week.
“We’re not trying to fix people. They’ll have the resources inside to fix themselves when they’re ready.”
– Program manager Mary Rathert of the Women’s Hearth Drop-In Center, which last week celebrated its 15th year of helping Spokane-area women in need.
“We have plenty of rails-to-trails. We need rails.”
– Washington state Rep. David Buri, a Colfax Republican, talking about the need to preserve the railroad line that area farmers depend on between Coulee City and Cheney.
“Brian is looking forward to returning to Eastern Washington and being an active part of my re-election campaign.”
– Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris, after announcing her engagement to Spokane native Brian Rodgers, who now lives in San Diego.
“We need to make sure that the buildings aren’t so large and so bulky that they block out the mountain and lake views that make downtown so desirable. We want to have our cake and eat it, too.”
– Coeur d’Alene Planning Commission Chairman John Bruning, talking about a building height ordinance that is under consideration in his city.
“Everybody in my country is jumping and drinking lots of vodka.”
– Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin after helping his team upset gold medal favorite Canada in the winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy.
“Understand that I’m going to use this as a platform.”
– Former Army helicopter pilot Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs in the Iraq war and now is making her military experience a focal point in her campaign for Congress in Illinois.
“This is his opportunity to tell us what life was like during that time.”
– Anthropologist Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, defending scientific examination of Kennewick Man, one of the oldest human skeletons ever found in North America.
“The world, we suggest, will not come to an end.”
– Attorney James Wallace, representing patent-holding company NTP Inc., which went to federal court to seek $126 million in damages and an injunction against Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the personal communication device known as Blackberry.