“Everyone would probably agree he ought to get his care somewhere. It’s a collective responsibility. Who does it is the question.”
—Rebecca Walker, in Should killer of six be given a new hip before execution? Associated Press

“Most researchers have assumed that because ocean currents in some places move faster than young turtles can swim, the turtles cannot control their migratory paths. This study shows otherwise.”
—Kenneth Lohmann, in Sea Turtle Conservation Boosted by New Research, The Huffington Post

“Somehow, between the initial plan that was devised in the House in North Carolina and the time it found its way onto the ballot as Amendment 1, the language tended to expand to any question involving a domestic relationship, and a domestic relationship would be a domestic relationship by either a differently-sex couple or a same-sex couple. I think most of the recent debate about the amendment going too far was that it expanded the prohibition to affect relationships that most people thought were pretty much intact.”
—Kareem Crayton, in North Carolina voters pass amendment banning same-sex unions, Public Radio International

“This state has long exhibited two parallel trends of political thought. There’s this modernist, progressive element to North Carolina, which is expressed in its major universities, in its development of the modern economy, the Research Triangle.  There’s this movement to modernize in North Carolina that’s been going on in the postwar era. But the overlay is a stream of cultural conservatism.”
—Ferrel Guillory, in Uncertainty for North Carolina same-sex couples after gay marriage vote, CNN