In their words
A selection of quotations from people in recent news stories, big and small
“They don’t want picketers showing up on their front lawns, and they don’t want offenders knowing who they are.”
– Spokesman Dan Sytman of the state attorney general’s office, explaining why four members of the lethal injection team at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla resigned.
“You dodged a big bullet this time.”
– Spokane County Superior Court Judge Tari Eitzen, speaking to 21-year-old David J. Harrington after he was acquitted of robbery charges that alleged he was the lookout in a pharmacy heist.
“That’s a heck of a reason to support a tax increase, because we think we can fool our constituents and they won’t notice it.”
– Idaho state Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, arguing against a proposed five-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax increase, which, it has been suggested, would be unnoticeable to motorists.
“It’s a huge problem. We don’t need a trade war in the middle of a recession.”
– Congressman Adam Smith, warning of the consequences that trade-dependent Washington state faces if a trade war results from a growing dispute over Mexican trucks’ use of U.S. highways.
“Everything has a price during an economic downturn.”
– Criminology professor Richard Rosenfeld of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, commenting on the trivial nature of some items that thieves will grab as crime increases during a recession.
“I always knew that there would be a day when the cloud that surrounded me would be removed. That day has finally come. It is unfortunate that an election was affected by proceedings now recognized as unfair.”
– Former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican who was defeated for re-election last fall and whose appeal from a criminal conviction will not now be contested by the Justice Department, according to an announcement from Attorney General Eric Holder.
“Hospitals put more effort into the admission process than they do into the discharge process.”
– Dr. Eric Coleman, one of the authors of a University of Colorado study that showed Medicare patients frequently return to the hospital within a month of discharge because they don’t get appropriate medical advice regarding their recuperation.