“I think we’re still a conservative town, aren’t we? Head in the sand? The idea that this doesn’t happen here?”

— Spokane police Detective Jan Pogachar, suggesting Spokane is in denial about the prevalence of rape here.

“Can you imagine looking up there and seeing windmills. It’s unbelievable.”

— LaVar Grover, a member of a coalition of eastern Idaho residents who object to plans for a wind farm proposed for scenic Wolverine Canyon near Idaho Falls.

“I don’t think he had a séance and brought Glenn back.”

— Coeur d’Alene attorney Mike Haman, giving Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Douglas the benefit of the doubt that a transcription error is to blame for the deposition in which Douglas mentioned consulting with E. Glenn Harmon, a lawyer who had been dead for more than a decade.

“Being a nurse for 37 years, the thought of starting over on nights and weekends – I don’t really want to do that.”

— Registered nurse Patty McGuire, who has worked for the past seven years in the emergency and operating rooms of the Deer Park community hospital that Providence Health Care intends to shut down.

“I’m very much at home in the kitchen.”

— Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, saying she can take the heat that goes with being the front-runner in the contest for her party’s 2008 nomination.

“For a guy who chooses to stay outside rather than coming to a shelter, you got to wonder whether he wants to better himself.”

— Union Gospel mission operations manager David Wall, talking about people who prefer to live outside in a tent city when there is indoor shelter space available for them.

“Who would have thought we would change the world’s habits on coffee?”

— Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, talking to reporters in Olympia and contending that the state’s economy is strong and its influence broad.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this isn’t Hollywood. This is the real world. There is no one-armed man.”

— Prosecuting attorney Lana Weinmann, countering defense counsel’s suggestion to the jury in Fred Russell’s vehicular homicide trial that the defendant was unjustly accused, like the fictional Richard Kimball in “The Fugitive.”

“When the Vietnam War ended, that was part of the problem. The war was over, it was off TV, nobody wanted to hear about it.”

— Vietnam veteran John Keaveney, a founder of a program to help vets overcome substance abuse and homelessness, speculating as to why a fourth of the nation’s homeless population is now estimated to be military veterans.

“Why should we pay more for the streets we are already paying for?”

— Downtown Spokane resident Dave Cooke, objecting to an increase in the amount to be charged on Spokane parking meters, accompanied by an increase in the hours during which meters are monitored.