“I cannot believe a woman who was elected to serve the city of Detroit is so ignorant to compare rape with someone who is going to fix up the park.”
-- Miguel Bruce, in letter to Free Press
“I am as excited by the prospect of an improved Belle Isle as I am by the prospect of electing a new City Council in November.”
-- Thomas E. Page of Detroit, in letter to The Detroit News
“The Mackinac Center’s biggest failure is Detroit. I’m hard-pressed to name an issue on which we’ve spilled more ink and had less actual impact.”
-- Joseph Lehman, president, in blog post
"They needed to make cuts; I'm one of the casualties."
-- Henry Payne, ex-Detroit News editorial cartoonist, in Deadline Detroit
“Parking’s going to remain an issue in Detroit until they do away with cars or something.”
-- Frederick Liesveld, commercial real estate exec in Southfield, quoted by Free Press
"Too bad arrogance isn’t a crime. [Kwame Kilpatrick] would surely get life then."
-- Eric Martin in online comment to Free Press
“With our luck, they'll cancel the check so they can help pay for the Affordable Care Act.”
-- Keith Crain, in Crain’s Detroit Business column on Detroit’s new federal aid
“Basically, 500 people showed up downtown yesterday to learn that something will happen at some point in the future and it will be good because it's Google.”
-- Jeff Wattrick, Deadline Detroit writer, on firm’s Detroit hub announcement
Graphic by Lauren Ann Davies
