Quotes of note

"It's like everything else. You get ready for the next one. Keep going forward."
FREDERICK SULLIVAN, district fire chief for Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, after two firefighters were killed while fighting a blaze in West Roxbury

"They always put our needs before their own. That doesn't make it any easier to accept the harsh reality we find ourselves in today."
MAYOR THOMAS MENINO, on the firefighters

"Even we cannot pass a budget on time, and we have had 200 years of practice."
PRESIDENT BUSH, on the difficulties of the Iraqi government

"It's time for the State Ethics Commission to hold a training seminar for the Patrick administration."
ROBERT WILLINGTON, Republican interim state director, on aide Robert K. Coughlin, who worked on Governor Deval Patrick's biotechnology initiative while seeking the presidency of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council

"If that bullet didn't hit the State House, but instead hit one of us, would anyone have cared? I don't think so."
NANCY DURLING, a homeless Bostonian, on the curfew imposed on the Common after two teenagers were shot and a stray bullet struck a State House window

"I am not gay. I never have been gay."
SENATOR LARRY CRAIG of Idaho, who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after an undercover officer accused him in June of soliciting sex in an airport restroom

"Let's be realistic, kids party on Thursdays. That's not going to stop with more Friday classes. Students will just skip or show up hungover."
MIKE WEBB, a Framingham State College junior, on the push for more Friday classes to curb Thursday night partying

"Ted Nugent was giving a concert and he held up a machine gun and made veiled threats about Hillary and Barack Obama. I find this shocking. Ted Nugent still has concerts?"
BILL MAHER