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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
Ray Mariano (pictured above), who runs a public housing system in Massachusetts: “If you want a government benefit, then you have to do something for it.”
Rachel Cohen, who works for a drug-research nonprofit, on a forthcoming markup for medicine that treats Chagas disease: “You’re talking about a 100,000 percent or 150,000 percent price increase.”
Susan Isaacs, a Christian comedian: “There’s nothing funny in the Bible, except the stuff that’s unintentionally funny. Like when Joshua climbs a mountain of foreskins.”
(Previous quotes from our sources here)