The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for Sept. 1-6.
“The court’s ruling today will require Tenn-Care to do their job and ensure that the people who have been stuck waiting for a decision for months will be able to finally receive the health care they deserve.”
Sara Zampierin, staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, after a federal judge ordered TennCare officials to offer hearings to applicants and certified their lawsuit as a class action
“As students, we can’t do anything to change the administration. We already tried. We need to just stay now because that is all we have the power to do.”
— Bryan College junior Emily Wright as a new school year starts after months of controversy over a revised statement of belief that faculty were required to sign
“Dakota was too young to make the phone call for me to come get him — to ask for my help.”
— Tyler Arndt, of Michigan, whose 3-year-old son, Dakota, died after a beating in the Soddy-Daisy home of the child’s mother and her live-in boyfriend
“Looks like we’re not going to make it.”
— Pilot Don Edens, talking to traffic control just before his single-engine plane crashed off Ooltewah Industrial Drive after developing engine trouble
“I can’t go into my children’s piggy bank because I want something new, and you can’t do that to us,” he said.
— Walker County resident Perry Lamb to Sole Commissioner Bebe Heiskell, in a public hearing on a planned 3-mill property tax increase