The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for Dec. 27-Jan. 2.
“We don’t leave. If it gets real high, above five and a half feet, we tie a boat to the top of the step and go back and forth to the car.”
– Rex Wheeler, of East Ridge, as he rescued his things from water flowing through his basement during the week’s massive storms
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“If the Supreme Court will not allow us as a sovereign state to issue marriage licenses as we have decided, then we won’t issue them at all.”
– State Rep. Rick Womick, R-Rockvale, proposing that Tennessee go back to common-law marriage as a way to avoid having to issue licenses for same-sex couples
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