People who had a way with words in the news last week:
“In this case, the defendant had to make a conscious choice to pull the trigger, pull the trigger, pull it, pull it, pull it, pull it, pull it and keep pulling it until he was done shooting.”
— Hamilton County prosecutor Paul Moyle, about Legraine Devon Poston Jr., who was found guilty of second-degree murder.
“He then asked if she preferred Cleveland or jail.”
— A complaint report on Collegedale police officers who gave a distressed woman a choice before dropping her at a truck stop in neighboring Cleveland.
“What I think has been so meaningful to so many people with the laurel dace is that, here is something tangible that’s happening in our backyard that we can have a positive difference for.”
— Anna George, vice president of conservation science and education at the Tennessee Aquarium, speaking about the efforts to save an endangered minnow.
“You can give me a brand new Rolls-Royce, and I could take it home and park it in the garage and never start it for two, three, four years. (And) it’s not going to work because it’s a mechanical instrument. So is the organ. It’s a mechanical instrument.”
— Jim Bailiff, past president of the Chattanooga Music Club, speaking about the Austin pipe organ inside Memorial Auditorium, celebrating 100 years since its debut.
“We want to be treated just like Apison, just like Hixson. We want to be treated fair like everybody else. If we’re not, it’s going to be a problem.”
— Kevin Hayes, president of the Hillsboro Heights Community Association, in opposition a large proposed mixed-use development near Tunnel Boulevard that would include affordable housing.
“We’re living in bizarro land at the moment, but here’s hoping cooler heads prevail, and we get back to some form of rational economic policy that creates growth.”
— Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly about President Donald Trump’s tariff plans.
“I would remind the churches that even heaven has an immigration policy. You can’t climb over the wall in heaven. You can’t slick talk St. Peter into the gates of heaven. There’s a very specific way you come into heaven to become a resident of heaven. They’ve got a very strict immigration policy, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable for Americans to have an immigration policy that people follow.”
— Tennessee Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Memphis, on legislation that would penalize charitable organizations that serve immigrants, potentially leading to their employees’ arrests.
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