“We got out of Dodge and did what we had to do.”

– House Majority Leader Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, saying the measures that might have formed the agenda for a special session of the Washington Legislature were not urgent enough to justify reconvening the body in Olympia.

“We watched planks flying by the window.”

– Wild Rose Prairie resident Risa White, after high winds on Wednesday night hammered her family’s home north of Spokane.

“The end game is consumers are paying two bills for the same service. Which are they going to choose? They’ll choose the one they can take with them in their car.”

– Market research analyst John Fletcher, reacting to survey figures showing, for the first time, that more Americans have a cell phone but no land line than have a land line but no cell phone.

“It’s concerning. No question. You can’t make it go away.”

– Assistant general manager Gord Ash, of the Milwaukee Brewers, about the damage done to Major League Baseball’s reputation when high-profile players such as Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez are found to have used banned substances.

“Water will be restored to Spokane Falls 24 hours per day, seven days a week. It will start to behave like a river again.”

– Sierra Club member Rachael Paschal Osborn, about the organization’s agreement with Avista Utilities under which Avista will forgo enough hydroelectric power generation at its Monroe Street dam to assure full-time water flow over the Spokane Falls.

“I don’t have any interest in being another General Custer.”

– Bothell minister Joe Fuiten, who objects to giving gay and lesbian couples the same legal rights enjoyed by married couples but fears that a referendum drive to overturn the law could fail and be interpreted as public support for same-sex marriage.

“They need to get the Goodyear blimp out there on this.”

– Tom Ochsenschlager, vice president of taxation for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, about the federal government’s failure to alert taxpayers that new withholding tables will require many of them to return part of the tax credit they will see on their paychecks.

“There will be more people on the stage than in the audience.”

Mexican theater producer Tina Galindo, about the effect of swine-flu-inspired regulations that require a theatergoer to have two vacant seats on either side as well as a row in front and behind.

“If GM is going to do more of its production overseas, then why exactly are we saving GM?”

– Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, following news that General Motors, having been rescued by an infusion of American tax dollars, plans to double the number of cars it builds in other countries for sale in the United States.