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"The food service people fired up the oven and they're eating pizza ... and Christmas cookies (and) sharing them with people who couldn't get home."

- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care CEO Charlie Baker of Swampscott on how his company dealt with the traffic delays caused by Thursday afternoon's snowstorm.

"Of all the names released yesterday ... Roger Clemens hurt the most."

- Sports columnist Bill Burt on Thursday's release of the Mitchell Report that listed current and former Major League Baseball players believed to have used steroids.

"She has forced us many times, in nice ways, to think outside the box."

- Beverly School Supt. James Hayes thanking outgoing School Committee President Nancy Brusil for her service. After 10 years on the board, Brusil chose not to seek re-election to her Ward 4 seat on the board last fall.

"Nobody wants to admit they're slow or struggling, but the economy is really taking its toll on restaurants."

Milissa Oraibi, co-owner of Beverly's Wild Horse Cafe, on why she and her fellow restaurateurs opposed Mayor Bill Scanlon's proposal - since withdrawn - to increase the number of liquor licenses in the city.

"I think time demonstrated that we had made a wonderful choice at that time."

- The Rev. Andrew Demotses, chairman of the Peabody Council on Aging, on Denis Coleman, right, who retires next month as director of senior services for the city. Demotses was on the committee that help pick Coleman for the job 25 years ago.

"They're part of the community whether you like or not."

- Ward 5 Councilor David Gamache, explaining that the City Council had no legal grounds to prevent the Golden Banana strip club on Route 1 from reopening next week.

"It's punishment for a previous life, I'm sure."

- Political consultant Michael Goldman on the trips he's made to Iowa on behalf of presidential candidates. He spoke before members of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce Wednesday.

"The Arctic is screaming."

- Mark Serreze, a senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colo., speaking about how the melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer.



"I still have hopes the people in Iraq will appreciate us being there. It just seems like we are making a difference."

- Daniel Laird, a California man who leans Republican and was questioned in an AP survey that showed more people believe the U.S. is making progress in Iraq and will eventually be able to claim some success there.

"He understood that some of the things he was doing in life and off the field were dangerous, and he told me he feels lucky that he's alive and not hurt, and now it's all about the future." - Michael Vick's longtime family attorney Lawrence Woodward, after Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison for his involvement in the killing of dogs.

"Access to information is a strength, not a threat, and it is a fundamental part of innovation." - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a speech in China, where communist leaders maintain a firm grip on all media.

"I still have hopes the people in Iraq will appreciate us being there. It just seems like we are making a difference."

- Daniel Laird, a California man who leans Republican and was questioned in an AP survey that showed more people believe the U.S. is making progress in Iraq and will eventually be able to claim some success there.

"He understood that some of the things he was doing in life and off the field were dangerous, and he told me he feels lucky that he's alive and not hurt, and now it's all about the future." - Michael Vick's longtime family attorney Lawrence Woodward, after Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison for his involvement in the killing of dogs.

"Access to information is a strength, not a threat, and it is a fundamental part of innovation." - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a speech in China, where communist leaders maintain a firm grip on all media.