The most memorable quotes in the Times Free Press for April 14-April 19.
“You’ll never get rid of crazy, but these folks win if they cut us off from the people we’re representing.”
– U.S. Rep. Phil Roe, a Johnson City, Tenn., Republican, on poisonous letters mailed to President Obama and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi
“The cat needs to be skinned in the proper way.”
– Sen. Todd Gardenhire, on the fight over a bill to make cockfighting a felony in Tennessee, saying he would consider the legislation anew next session but that he was turned off by the Humane Society’s lobbying efforts