“The flow of people never seemed to stop.”

— Spokesman Bob Bostwick of the Coeur d’Alene Tribal Casino in Worley, where a four-day visit by the Traveling Wall Vietnam Memorial attracted an estimated 20,000 visitors, practically around the clock.

“We felt they got a little too picky.”

— Assistant Superintendent Mark Anderson of the Spokane School District, which, for the fourth time in recent years, was criticized by the state auditor’s office for the handling of student body funds.

“I know there’s a lot of us out here who just hope there’s something left.”

— Judy House, a creditor of Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities Co., whose bankruptcy proceedings have consumed millions of dollars in fees to specialists who are trying to sort out how much money people like House will get back, if any.

“You can’t continue to close streets without doing death to commerce in this city – to tourism in this city, to the tax base in this city.”

— Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony A. Williams, talking about the impact of security alerts in the nation’s capital.

“Growing up, I just wanted to go home, and I just kept moving around.”

Amie Watkins, one of the plaintiffs in a class-action suit, settled last week, accusing the state of Washington of bouncing foster children from placement to placement rather than finding stable homes for them.

“This is really judge-made law as to what an Indian is.”

— U.S. District Court Judge Justin Quackenbush, talking about the lack of statutory definition to guide him in deciding whether a party in a lawsuit is legally an American Indian.

“Somebody sends me a blue dress and some DNA, I’ll have an investigation.”

U.S. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., last October, on why the House Select Committee on Intelligence declined to pursue the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Goss has been tapped by President Bush to run the Central Intelligence Agency.

“It’s going to be lame.”

— Tyler Smithgall, 16, on the possible closure, due to city budget cuts, of a teen program that about 75 teens like him use at the East Central Community Center.