Quotables

‘There will be no parade.’

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on the city setting a new record—108.6 inches —for winter snowfall.

‘A pure ambush.’

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on the shooting of two police officers by “a damn punk” during a March 12 protest in Ferguson, Mo. “These police officers were standing there and they were shot, just because they were police officers,” added St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar.

‘Made in Russia, for Russians.’

A McDonald’s billboard in Moscow. Anti-American sentiment is reportedly the highest in Russia since the Soviet era.

‘I’m not scared that non-believers will make me feel an outcast. I’m scared that Christians will.’

Wonkette blogger and Guardian reporter Ana Marie Cox on being nervous about coming out as a Christian “because I worry I’m not good enough of one.” She said, however, that reaction across the board had been positive.

‘So just for funsies, why don’t you let somebody who doesn’t work for you look through those personal emails?’

Comedian Jon Stewart on Hillary Clinton’s deletion of 30,000 emails from her tenure as secretary of state. Clinton said they were personal emails.

‘Idolatry of the Bible.’

American Baptist College President Forrest Harris on what he says his critics were guilty of when they opposed his decision to allow a lesbian bishop to speak at the school. Harris defined idolatry of the Bible as, “When people say [the Bible] is synonymous with God and the truth. We can’t be guided and dictated by a first-century world view.”