WEEKEND QUOTABLES

"I'm not 'The Scream' in Edvard Munch's painting." -- Tribune

Rahm Emanuel

There are a lot of hands on the bloody knife, not one. . . . Sun-Times

Curtis Black

So according to the Illinois Supreme Court, when the state constitution says pension benefits shall not be diminished, it means pension benefits shall not be diminished. And somehow this bit of elementary logic comes as a huge shock to the state’s political leadership. -- Chicago Reporter

Rhoda Rae Gutierrez

 “The policies of the appointed Board of Education have exacerbated historical educational inequalities. This presses us to ask: Whose interests does the Board serve?” -- The Promise

Elizabeth Warren to California Dems

 "This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare...We don't win what we don't fight for." -- L.A. Times

Dave Zirin

If this Waco shit (9 dead. 100 guns) happened in Baltimore, they'd be occupying Maryland w/the Nat Guard, the Canadian Mounties & the IDF.

— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) May 18, 2015