This week's set has comments by Rick Snyder, Mike Duggan, Brooks Patterson, a downtown bar owner, a blogger and a Free Press intern.

"Karen Dumas is to Detroit media is what Star Jones is to morning news shows."
-- Aaron Foley, blogging Saturday at Jalopnik Detroit

"The Detroit City Council is looking an awful lot like the Beatles in mid-implosion."
-- Robert Laurie, Detroit News guest columnist

"Come out of hiding, Charles, and step up to your responsibilities. . . . An elected official doesn’t have the luxury of doing a Greta Garbo routine."
--  Detroit News editorial

"The [Campus Martius] beach was a weird idea but it turned out pretty cool."
-- "FlyingOnion," commenting on Reddit thread

"I wish DPD would patrol 7 Mile the same way they do for the fireworks."
-- Darren Nichols, Detroit News reporter, at his Facebook page

"The concept of native Detroiter is so overrated."
-- Vaughn Derderian, Anchor Bar owner, at his Facebook page

"As much as I would love to live in Michigan after I graduate, I have major moral qualms about living in a state where gay marriage isn’t legal."
--Sara Jongeward, Albion College senior and Free Press intern

"Michigan’s gay marriage ban makes about as much sense as segregation."
-- Chad Mannlein of Fort Gratiot, Mich., in comment to Free Press

"They [Supreme Court justices] have pushed immorality upon us. . . . It's not their job to make the law, but defend the constitution. Our forefathers are rolling over on this one."
-- Dave Agema, Republican National Committee member from Michigan, at his Facebook page

"I am the world's expert now on filing deadlines for the City Charter."
-- Mike Duggan, announcing write-in candidacy for mayor, quoted at HuffPost Detroit

"He [Mike Ilitch] could ask for a tax break to kill kittens and he'd get a couple hundred million, no questions asked."
-- Carsten Applegate of Detroit, in Facebook comment on Wings arena plan

"Right-wing zealots of Michigan vow to oppose any expansion of 'government' health care and tremble in fear of a primary challenge from a Tea Party wacko further right than they."
-- Jack Lessenberry, Metro Times columnist, commenting on Senate recess without Medicaid expansion vote 

Graphics by Lauren Ann Davies.