WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Champaign State’s Attorney Julia Rietz

...told WBEZ in an interview Friday afternoon that her office is involved in a “comprehensive investigation” with the Illinois Attorney General, the Illinois State Police and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of Illinois into the content of the email.

“There are efforts being made to unravel this – again – cryptic, unspecific allegation regarding a sexual assault,” Rietz said. -- WBEZ

Hamilton Nolan at the Guardian

Nothing requires less courage than letting yourself go along with a march towards war when you have the biggest military in the world. Show me a candidate willing to fight for peace, and I’ll show you the future. -- The Democrats must become a real anti-war party

State's Atty. Kim Foxx

We've got to have an inside/outside game. Chesa's [Boudin] election should speak to that. -- Hitting Left interview

Tracy Littlejohn, educator and homeschool coordinator

“I’ve gone into some fourth-grade classrooms where they thought we were extinct,” said Littlejohn, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. -- LaCrosse Tribune

D.T.'s mercenary army

“I said to Saudi Arabia, you want more troops, I’ll send them to you, but you’ve gotta pay us... they’ve already deposited $1 Billion.” -- Rolling Stone

Not sorry. I will never apologize for protecting immigrants and refugee families in Chicago. https://t.co/pgWn3auhb1

— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) January 12, 2020