“No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning, no negotiation with this brand of evil.” — President Barack Obama, on combating jihadists, in an address to the United Nations (New York Daily News, Wednesday)
“If the president just gets to do this without Congress, then we will be embracing the Cheney pre-emptive war doctrine, which I think is just brutally wrong.” — Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., objecting to U.S. bombing in Syria without congressional authorization (The Huffington Post, Tuesday)
“It is not weakness that should be the response to terrorism, but force.” — French President Francois Hollande, on the beheading of a French tourist by an Algerian jihadist group (The BBC, Wednesday)
“#lattesalute” — Hashtag used by Obama critics objecting to a salute he gave Marines while exiting his presidential helicopter with a cup of coffee in his right hand (Twitter, Wednesday)
“#dogsalute” — Hashtag used by Obama defenders, objecting to a salute by former President George W. Bush to Marines while carrying his Scottish Terrier, Barney (Twitter, Wednesday)
“It’s the same as if somebody came and desecrated a grave.” — Anthony Levine, of suburban St. Louis, after fire destroyed a memorial on the street where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson (The Associated Press, Wednesday)
“I am Darren Wilson.” — Bracelet worn by Missouri police officers in support of the patrolman under investigation for shooting Brown (BuzzFeed, Wednesday)
“Why did you shoot me?” — Black South Carolina motorist Levar Jones, wounded by white state trooper Sean Groubert after reaching into his car for his wallet, during a stop on a seat-belt violation; Groubert was fired and charged with a felony (CNN, Thursday)
“What began as the demolition of a single historic building on Sunday has spread like a cancer to neighboring buildings between Main and Elm streets.” — From a statement by Preservation Dalllas, on the razing of a cluster of downtown buildings to make way for a high-end retailer (The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday)
“Having our children grow up in the sheltered environment — ‘The Bubble’ — our children need to be exposed to different ideas and ways of life for others.” — Highland Park parent Laurie Dodic Steinberg, who wants suspended books restored to the high school’s reading list (The Dallas Morning News, Tuesday)
“They are bombarded, so let’s give them a safe place at school where they can spend the day without a classroom where they read obscenities.” — Highland Park parent Tavia Hunt, who opposed basing curriculum on the books in question (The Dallas Morning News, Tuesday)
“I have never seen this amount of bodies before.” — British health worker Stephen Rowden, on corpses piling up in Ebola-stricken Liberia (The Telegraph, Wednesday)
“If even the medium case comes to pass, with, say, 700,000 cases by January, the epidemic will quickly overwhelm the capabilities that the U.S. plans to send.” — Global health professor Jack Chow, of Carnegie Mellon University, on prospects for containing Africa’s Ebola epidemic (The New York Times, Wednesday)
“Ebola, AIDS Manufactured By Western Pharmaceuticals, US DoD?” — Headline in Liberia’s largest newspaper, with a story saying the Ebola epidemic began with bio-weapons testing on unsuspecting Africans (CBS DC, Thursday)
“When you and I die, our kids aren’t going to go to our tombstones; they’re going to fire up our digital twins and talk to them.” — Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil, predicting a future where a person’s entire mind is uploaded to a computer (MailOnline, Monday)
