"I'm really going to miss people throwing double-A batteries at me in the bullpen."-- Red Sox closer JONATHAN PAPELBON, about fans at soon-to-be-defunct Yankee Stadium
"Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd."-- THE NEW YORKER in a statement in response to widespread criticism of the latest issue's cover, which features a fist-bumping Barack Obama (in Islamic dress) and wife, Michelle, (as a black militant) in the Oval Office
"This is the kind of case where you want to restrain the guy and hang a heavy, Damocles sword over him, so he does stop."-- WENDY MURPHY, lawyer, in seeking a civil rights injunction against state Senator J. James Marzilli Jr. for alleged sexual harassment against multiple women
"The way gas prices are, people are rediscovering their feet."-- PAM FISCHER, New Jersey highway traffic safety director
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"I was ready to vomit."-- EDWARD KELLY, president of the Firefighters Union, on how he reacted to video of firefighter Albert Arroyo, who had been collecting salary on disability leave, participating in a May bodybuilding contest
"What consumers care is that their Bud will always be their Bud, and that's what we're committed to . . ."-- CARLOS BRITO, InBev CEO, after the Belgian brewer acquired Anheuser-Busch, gaining control of the all-American Budweiser brand
