Voices include Barack Obama, John King, Lynn Henning, Adam Graham. Nolan Finley and blogger Nancy Nall Derringer.

"I am also here to do some scouting on my brackets."
-- President Obama at bill-signing on MSU campus Friday

"There's something very Detroit about the Dirty Show and that's what I love most about performing there."
-- Roxi D'Lite, exotic dancer, quoted in Real Detroit Weekly

“There’s something oddly defeatist about saying: Our citizens have been done wrong for so long, let’s bring in Chinese and Indians.”
-- New York Times editorial on governor’s Detroit job visas plan

“I don’t get what Snyder has come back from. . . . Maybe the Turnaround Kid would be better.”
-- Nolan Finley, Detroit News blog post,

“I’ve got a crisp $5 bill on my desk for the first person who can demonstrate that anyone not on Snyder’s payroll has referred to him as ‘The Comeback Kid.’ ”
-- Mark Maynard of Ypsilanti at his blog

“Media will initially adjust to hearing several million fewer swear words during the course of a given season.”
-- Lynn Henning, Detroit News columnist, comparing Tigers manager Brad Ausmus to predecessor Jim Leyland

“We were here before Borders, we were here during Borders and we’re here after Borders. . . . We’re a dinosaur.”
-- John King, Detroit bookseller, in Metro Times interview

“This shit is getting old. At least, it’s making me feel that way.”
-- Nancy Nall Derringer, Grosse Pointe Woods blogger, on this winter