Here's the latest installment of This Week in Quotes, with appearances by Coleman A. Young II, Sam Riddle, Jack Lessenberry, Phil Power, Darrell Dawsey, Lions safety Louis Delmas and readers.
"As Carly Simon might say, 'Anticipation. Anti-suh-pay-yay-shun is making us wait.' No verdict. Jury goes home. Day 14 ends uneventfully."
-- Jim Schaefer, covering Kwame Kilpatrick trial for Freep, in post at his Facebook page
"I almost feel like a girlfriend waiting at home that’s got a boyfriend that’s cheating on her."
-- Louis Delmas, Lions player, commenting on lack of new contract offer before free agent eligibility
"Levin always arrived early for Free Press meetings, and we always wondered if he had slept in the suit."
-- Ron Dzwonkowski, retired associate editor, in Saturday column
"The emergency financial manager is the largest and most racist poll tax in the United States. . . . This is going to blow up."
-- Sam Riddle, ex-con political consultant, in Detroit News
"We need a mayor who will stand and fight, not whimper and cower."
-- State Sen. Coleman A Young II, D-Detroit, quoted at Fox 2 News
"We shall now watch a great experiment in whether a once-great city with a tough political culture can claw its way to financial sanity, without imploding over racial and economic tensions."
-- Phil Power, ex-newspaper publisher, in Bridge column
"Snyder's grand plan amounts to a giant middle finger to the state's black voters."
-- Darrell Dawsey, Deadline Detroit columnist
"As a lifelong resident of Detroit who is also black, I say bring it on, it's about time."
-- Eugene Jones, in Detroit News letters column
"Much of this [emergency management] is going to be surgery without anesthesia. But surgery needed to save the patient’s life."
-- Jack Lessenberry, Metro Times columnist
"When I was a little girl some 60 years ago, living in Detroit, I used to listen to my parents say repeatedly, 'City Council is arguing again. No wonder they don't get anything done.' . . . It is apparent nothing has changed. What a crying shame."
-- Nancy Austin of Canton, in Freep letters column
