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Quotes of The Week: Attacked Driver, GM, Tigers Manager And Potholes

April 05, 2014, 7:26 AM

Voices include Jon Stewart, M.L. Elrick, Mike O’Hara, Jack Lessenberry and Sen. Barbara Boxer.

"This tragedy is NOT about color. It’s about evil people against good people."
-- Bernice Malinowski, donating to medical expenses collection at GoFundMe for beaten driver Steve Utash

“[Lisa] Brown may well be better known to some voters than [Mark] Schauer.”
-- Jack Lessenberry, Michigan Radio commentator, on Democratic candidates for lieutenant governor and governor  

“Most of the politicians and bully boys in this town are play gangsters.”
-- M.L. Elrick, Fox 2 reporter, in Metro Times interview  

“They [GM] studied the problem for four years, did an internal cost-benefit analysis . . . and came up with ‘fuck it.’ "
-- Jon Stewart, hosting “The Daily Show

“Women have to rescue the guys I who made bad decisions. I wish her answers didn't have to be edited in advance by GM lawyers.”
-- Charlene Rodgers of West Bloomfield, in Facebook comment on Mary Barra testimony to Congress

 “You don’t know anything about anything. . . . As a woman-to-woman, I am very disappointed.”
-- Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., to Mary Barra of GM, quoted by Detroit News

-- Compiled by Alan Stamm



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