From News staff and wire reports
" I wasn't aware the muzzle order was forever. I figured they had to mail me something."
Anjoli "Angie" West of Salem, whose border collie, which she was supposed to muzzle, was ordered put down after its third biting incident
" Somebody needs to be the voice of reason. This is not smallpox. Too many people are panicking."
Beverly Health Department nurse Pat Zingariello on the swine flu scare
" Sir, they are opening fire over there!"
Man in uniform to Pastor Greg Schannep, as a gunman went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and wounded 30
" U.S. unemployment rate hits 10.2 percent in October, the highest rate since April 1983. Job losses total 190,000."
CNN breaking news bulletin sent yesterday morning
" I am not prepared to put the lives of British men and women in harm's way for a government that does not stand up against corruption."
Britain Prime Minister Gordon Brown, warning Afghanistan's government to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms
" I look at that, and it makes me sad. They left because they found opportunities for their families that they couldn't find here."
GOP gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, a former selectman in Swampscott, on the large number of Red Sox fans who show up for the team's away games
" What the sentence does not reflect is the evil of the crime. No sentence could."
Salem Superior Court Judge David Lowy upon sentencing Jennifer Ward, 39, of Peabody to 15 to 17 years in prison for the shaking death of her baby daughter
" Right now I think we're in a good place and I'm excited about doing this work."
Beverly Council President-elect Mike Cahill deflecting a reporter's query as to whether he plans to run for mayor in 2011
" I thought there were a lot more people, but they were a lot better behaved."
Downtown Salem resident Vera Bennett offering her assessment of the crowds that descended on Salem for Halloween last weekend
" It feels better than I remember it, man. It's been a long time."
Yankees captain Derek Jeter after New York beat Philadelphia to capture its first World Series title since 2000.
