Quotables

MEMORABLE THINGS THEY SAID

"I just thought, 'I can't do this anymore.'"

Abby Johnson, former director of the Bryan (Texas) Planned Parenthood clinic, on resigning Oct. 6 after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure.

"Some of us with long memories are still waiting for justice to be served on Iran and Syria."

Col. Timothy J. Geraghty, the commanding officer of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit in Beirut in 1983, writing in the New York Post Oct. 23 on the 26th anniversary of the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks that killed 241 U.S. Marines, soldiers, and sailors. The attack also killed 58 French peacekeepers.

"Inviting Jayson Blair to keynote this institute was definitely a departure for us."

Edward Wasserman, professor of journalism at Washington & Lee University, on the invitation to the former New York Times reporter, who was fired for making up stories, to lecture at the school's seminar on journalism ethics.

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