The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for Jan. 4-9.
“The first minute you’re elected to a job people ask you, so what else are you interested in doing. If you’re on the city council, people want to know when you’re running for mayor. If you’re mayor they want to know when you’re running for governor. And when you’re governor …”
— Gov. Bill Haslam on whether he has national political ambitions
“Too many people are fighting to hard to die in this city. They need to remember these people fought to live.”
— Olivet Baptist Church pastor Kevin Adams, during a roundtable discussion after a special screening of “Selma” for a group of local ministers and civic leaders
“I spent many, many sleepless nights with my grandmother, hoping she would come back home.”
— Wesley Carr, on the disappearance of his mother, Victoria Hollingsworth, in 1997. Her husband, Adolphus Hollingsworth, was convicted Friday of murdering her and hiding her body
“Anytime the president of the United States wants to highlight our state’s success in higher education … I’m happy to be there.”
— U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, as he and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and U.S. Rep. John Duncan, all Republicans, flew with President Barack Obama on Air Force One for an appearance in Knoxville