"I'm fighting for my life. I have to defend myself. If I don't defend myself, no one else will."
— Alex Rodriguez,
on his suspension from baseball
"Let us hope that this is what the sale signifies: The beginning of a phase in which this Gilded Age's major beneficiaries reinvest in the infrastructure of our public intelligence."
— Journalist James Fallows, on the fate of The Washington Post
"I hope you're punished for what you did because what [you] did put a dagger in the heart of what America is all about."
— Sen. Chuck Schumer, on the racist defacement of a statue of Jackie Robinson