The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for Feb. 1-6.
“During the day you go out and a child has been abused. And then you come home and your spouse tells you that the washing machine is broken down,” Cothern said. “It’s different levels of priority.”
— H. Anthony Cothern Jr., a volunteer chaplain for the Chattanooga Police Department, on the new Cop Church
“It was very clear that he would do anything not to have a trial.”
— Assistant District Attorney General Cameron Williams, after John “Cutthroat” Simpson, who had fired six attorneys, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder after the judge said he would have to defend himself in court