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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.
“We were really in the stubby-pencil era,” —Susan Pamerleau, a police sheriff, on updating the technology at a Texas county jail.
“We do not see ourselves as fighting an LGBT community. We see ourselves as fighting a dictatorship of political correctness,” —Michelle Cretella, a pediatrician who opposes adoptions by same-sex couples.
“Each epidemic has its own little shop of horrors that you have to sort out,” —Peter Hotez, who studies tropical diseases.
(Previous quotes from our sources here.)