People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“He has integrity. I drilled him hard, gave him a lot of hard questions, and he came out on top.”
— Chattanooga City Council member Raquetta Dotley, of East Lake, as the council voted to promote Assistant Police Chief John Chambers to chief.
“Deliberately withholding information from a duly elected official is petty and immature, at best, and at worst it’s a willful violation of the oath of office. Regardless, it’s a slap in the face to the people I represent, and I won’t abide by it.”
— Hamilton County Commissioner David Sharpe, D-Red Bank, saying county Mayor Weston Wamp had cut him off from financial information about the county.