The most memorable quotes in the Times Free Press for Nov. 3-9.
“Reading helps us learn and be smarter, but I like to read because I feel like I’m in another world.”
— 10-year-old Lamarianna McDaniel, a fifth-grader at Hillcrest Elementary School about the thousands of books now available to students because of a grant from the Leonore Annenberg School Fund for Children
“We work, we pay our bills … we contribute to society the same way. All I’m asking for is the same rights for equal work.”
— Chattanooga Police Department Lt. Corliss Cooper on her support for Chattanooga to extend benefits to domestic partners of city employees
“It’s another hit by the chisel against the pedestal of marriage.”
— Tea party activist Donald O’Conner on his opposition to the extension of benefits to domestic partners
“We have to get the bad guys off the street, and some people are not going to like that, but it has to be done.”
— Chattanooga City Council Chairman Yusuf Hakeem on last week’s arrests of the city’s “worst of the worst” criminals
“We can no longer afford to enrich a group of hospital employees in this way at the expense of the hospital’s fiscal viability. If I can’t get this done, [the bondholders] will find someone else to do it.”
— Erlanger hospital CEO Kevin Spiegel on the need for an overhaul of the employee pension plan