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September 26, 2009

Quips & Quotes

" The assertion that there is a coverup is completely untrue."

Statement from District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett responding to charges by the parent of a Marblehead teen killed while crossing the street last month that his office is trying to protect the person who hit her

" I said, 'You gotta be kidding me.' "

David McDonald of Peabody on his reaction after his wife told him there was still mold at their child's school three weeks after they'd notified authorities of the problem

" The teachers were so great and very encouraging. That's where I really started to think about being a writer as profession."

Matt Hubbard, who took home an Emmy Award for comedy writing last Sunday, on how his experience at Beverly High School (Class of '96) led to his current job writing for the hit comedy "30 Rock"

" He stood out based on his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the United States."

FBI supervisory special agent Thomas Petrowski, on Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian national. Smadi was arrested in Dallas after federal officials said he placed what he believed to be a car bomb in a parking garage beneath the 60-story Fountain Place office tower.

" It isn't just a truck with books in it."

Norman Quinton of Moroney Body Works in Worcester explaining why the cost of replacing Beverly's aging bookmobile could top $150,000

" For me, the issue is representation. I don't believe you choose to not have a voice."

State Rep. Mary Grant, D-Beverly, defending her vote in favor of allowing Gov. Patrick to name an interim replacement for the late Sen. Kennedy

" Across America, there are people who are hanging on by a thin economic lifeline called unemployment insurance. Without passage of this bill, that thread will break for over 1 million workers before the end of this year, plunging them and their families into an economic abyss and threatening to reverse the positive signs we are beginning to see in the economy."

Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., in a statement after the House passed a new bill that would give jobless workers who are in imminent danger of losing their unemployment benefits a 13-week reprieve

" I'm going to buy my guys a burger and a Coke."

Barry Neely of Ironworkers Local 7 on the celebration he planned for workers at the Moose Lodge to celebrate completion of steelwork on the new J. Michael Ruane Judicial Center in downtown Salem on Wednesday

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