Quotations in the News
By APSaturday, August 21, 2010
Quotations in the News
“It’s a pain in the neck. There are coyotes hollering at night, lions roaring at night, junkyard dogs barking all day.” — Tom Burrington, 68, who lives near the Ohio home where a bear killed his caretaker. The property held about seven to nine bears and 20 wolves, and possibly a lion and three or four tigers, authorities said. Neighbors said the owner also kept coyotes.
“They were starting to feel pretty comfortable, like they had a pretty good chance of not being captured.” — Apache County Sheriff’s Cmdr. Webb Hogle after two of America’s most wanted fugitives were caught after three weeks at a campsite in eastern Arizona.
“The very fact that he is taken seriously when, in fact, he has no preparation to be president is an indication that the whole country, in particular the youth, looks at the typical Haitian population as a bankrupt kind of species.” — Robert Fatton Jr., a Haiti expert at the University of Virginia, after the Caribbean nation’s electoral commission said that hip hop artist Wyclef Jean cannot run for president.
