In their words
“I do live in the United States, but I’m being treated like an alien.”
– Brandy Jones, president of the Southern Idaho Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, after her organization was given permission to enter a gay pride float in Twin Falls’ Western Days parade – so long as it identifies itself only as the Southern Idaho Community Center, doesn’t distribute AIDS awareness information and doesn’t display any rainbows.
“She totally deserves it; she crushed everybody. I’m in a tough situation. That’s not how you win state.”
– Shadle Park High School runner Andrea Nelson, who was declared the winner of the state 4A 3,200-meter run but gave her gold medal to Nicole Cochrane, a Ballarmine Prep rival, who came in first but was disqualified for running three consecutive steps on the inside line of a turn.
“There is virtually a blank check to livestock owners to kill wolves just for being in the neighborhood.”
– Doug Honnold, of Earthjustice, which represents a coalition of environmental and animal rights groups who object to wolf hunts that have been approved in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming following removal of the gray wolf from the federal Endangered Species List.
“If people are hungry, they have no stake in stability. They will be ready for anything – anarchy – because they have nothing to safeguard or to fight for.”
– U.N. special representative Hedi Annabi, describing the tensions in Haiti where political unrest and soaring food prices have touched off unruly demonstrations.
“There’s a serious side to war, but I guess I repress that. I never got hurt and never got wounded.”
– World War II veteran David Sullivan, now a retired plastic surgeon in Spokane, recalling his experience as a flight surgeon aboard an aircraft carrier.
“All four were wearing socks and were in a running shoe.”
– Vancouver, British Columbia, Police Constable Annie Linteau, noting the similarities of four human right feet which washed up in recent months on separate islands in the Strait of Georgia.
“The economy is scraping along close to the bottom, but it is still afloat.”
– Chief economist Lynn Reaser of Bank of America’s Investment Strategies Group, reacting to news of a minute improvement in the country’s gross domestic product for the first quarter of 2008.