‘Justice is not often easy’ and other quotes of the week - The Dallas Morning News

“Justice is not often easy. It does not fit the mold of public opinion. And it does not conform to shifting standards. It answers only to the facts and to the law.” — Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, announcing his office will not charge for police officers in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. (Wednesday, Louisville Courier-Journal)

“I don’t know what his thinking was, but we have always had a peaceful transition between administrations. The peaceful transfer of power is a fundamental tenet of our democracy, and I am confident that we will see it occur once again.” — Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, after President Donald Trump declined two days in a row to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he doesn’t win the election and questioned whether the election can be honest. (Thursday, New York Times)

“Voting matters. Flip the Senate and life looks radically different. Unqualified judges stop getting appointed to lifetime posts. Presidential behavior is once again checked. All will not be fixed by an electoral course correction, but it is a necessary starting point.” — Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell (Wednesday, Twitter)

“If the monuments are going to be thrown out, chucked away, we’re happy to buy them and dismantle them and put them together back in Russia for future generations to enjoy and to appreciate… . The idea is preserving those things for history. History has two sides of it always. Bad or good, it’s a piece of art.” — Rena Lavery, director of Art Russe, owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Filatov. The foundation is seeking to buy two statues removed by U.S. groups out of concern that they don’t reflect a just reading of history: a statue of Theodore Roosevelt on a horse, high above the seminude Black and Native American people, outside of Manhattan’s American Museum of Natural History, and a statue of Russian colonizer Alexander Baranov in Sitka, Alaska. (Sunday, Washington Post)

“The Cenotaph should be located where the blood flowed.” — Texas Historical Commission Chairman John Nau, who was on the prevailing side of the 12-2 vote against a plan to move and restore the 1936 monument to the Texans who died at the Alamo. (Tuesday, Austin American-Statesman)

“The extreme difficulty of scaling production of new technology is not well understood. It’s 1,000% to 10,000% harder than making a few prototypes. The machine that makes the machine is vastly harder than the machine itself.” — Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, on the difficulty of ramping up production of the company’s electric vehicles. (Tuesday, Reuters)

“There’s no reason to believe that things are going to improve anytime soon… . There’s no easy path for any airline to go back to what amounts to 1970s levels of traffic. Believe it or not, that’s basically where the industry is domestically: 1970s.” — Southwest Airlines Chief Executive Gary Kelly on the state of the industry. (Wednesday, Dallas Morning News)

“Ruth used to ask, ‘What is the difference between a bookkeeper in Brooklyn and a Supreme Court justice?’ Her answer: ‘One generation.’” — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in his eulogy for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Wednesday, Washington Post)

“The intersection of natural quadruplets and a glioma in a single human, all during the course of pregnancy, I’m quite certain has never happened on this planet before and may never happen again … To say that Katie is a unique, strong woman is an understatement.” — Dr. Toral Patel, an assistant professor of neurological surgery at UT Southwestern and a doctor caring for Katie Sturm, who underwent surgery for an unusual brain tumor while she was pregnant with quadruplets. Austin, Daniel, Jacob and Hudson, who were conceived naturally, and mom are home and healthy. (Tuesday, Dallas Morning News)

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