"It feels better than I remember it, man. It's been a long time."
Yankees captain Derek Jeter after New York beat Philadelphia to capture its first World Series title since 2000.
"How do you get customers to walk two or three blocks to go to a restaurant?"
Steve Haginicolas, owner with his brother, George, of One Mill Street in Lawrence, on the lack of parking that has prompted them to put the building up for sale, after buying it for $690,000 and putting another $200,000 into it. The two own the Roma of Haverhill, an Italian restaurant.
"To grow up here and see this, it's history. It's like (John F. Kennedy) in the '60s and the Catholics. We've arrived."
Alex Veras, 40, of Lawrence, overcome with emotion at the election of state Rep. William Lantigua as the city's (and the state's) first Latino mayor.
"We got smoked."
John Michitson, who challenged James Fiorentini for mayor of Haverhill, in a call to his wife, Heidi, about 10 minutes after the polls closed. Fiorentini's victory margin was more than 2,000 votes.
"It just feels good to give back. And we're having some fun doing it."
North Andover fire Lt. Robert Bonenfant, one of a group of firefighters and other volunteers who are renovating the dilapidated red building in the corner of Grogan Field.
"Until recently, we were happy to be open to anyone in need ... we are very sorry that we can't continue to serve the other towns."
Joan Bukoskey, assistant director of the Our Neighbors' Table food pantry in Amesbury, which had provided food to about 40 people in Haverhill, Lawrence and Methuen. She said the pantry had to cut back because of a decrease in donations and an increase in food prices.
"We love and miss you, Christian."
A note left at the end of Fineview Circle in Pelham, N.H., where a falling tree struck and killed Christian Gualtierri, 10, while he was out trick-or-treating on Halloween night.
"It was humiliating and degrading and an invasion of my privacy."
Karyn Meunier, of Haverhill, who said she had to use the toilet in a Georgetown Police Department holding cell where she was the only woman among a number of men, after she was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear for jury duty, which she contends was a clerical error.
"Sir, they are opening fire over there!"
Man in uniform to Pastor Greg Schannep, as a gunman went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 people and wounded 30.
"I am not prepared to put the lives of British men and women in harm's way for a government that does not stand up against corruption."
Britain Prime Minister Gordon Brown, warning Afghanistan's government to take action against corruption, saying he would not risk more British lives there unless it reforms.
"Will you now be complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films?"
Parents Television Council president Tim Winter in a letter to CW network affiliate stations about an upcoming episode of "Gossip Girl" in which a sexual threesome is promoted on-air.
"Our goals remain unchanged. We want to get health insurance reform done this year, and we have unprecedented momentum to achieve that. There is no reason why we can't have a transparent and thorough debate in the Senate and still send a bill to the president by Christmas."
Jim Manley, spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid's office in a revised statement hours after Reid signaled that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation.
"By resigning ... and ending his embarrassing tenure in office, Justice Bardwell has finally consented to the will of the vast majority of Louisiana citizens and nearly every governmental official in Louisiana ... We are better off without him in public service."
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu in a statement after Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell resigned after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor for refusing to marry interracial couples.
"Domestic violence is a big secret. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn't heard. Now I can help speak for those women."
Pop star Rihanna in an interview telling Glamour magazine that dealing with the media attention after being assaulted in February by ex-boyfriend Chris Brown was humiliating.
"Successive American administrations of both parties have opposed Israel's settlement policy. That is absolutely a fact, and the Obama administration's position on settlements is clear, unequivocal and it has not changed. As the president has said on many occasions, the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in a statement during a photo-taking session in Morocco as she tried to mute Arab criticism that the Obama administration had retreated from its tough stance on Israeli settlements.
"This ship is actually a physical representation of that spirit with steel from the World Trade Center built into its bow so every friend that sets foot on it and every foe that dares challenge it will feel its power and know that it is literally made from the heart and soul of the city that has sacrificed so much."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a statement during a short ceremony after the new Navy assault ship USS New York, arrived in its namesake city with a rifle volley salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.
"The current recession is likely to generate for children in the United States the greatest level of material deprivation that we will see in our professional lifetimes."
Stanford pediatrician Dr. Paul Wise wrote in a medical journal editorial after researchers, using analysis of 30 years of national data, said that nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood.
