Quotables

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

P.J. O’ROURKE, one of America’s greatest libertarian political satirists and journalists, who died on Feb. 15 at 74.

“Tooting a horn is not an expression of any great thought I’m aware of.”

Ottawa Justice HUGH MCLEAN, while granting an interim injunction seeking to silence the honking truck horns that have plagued residents of downtown Ottawa and denying it was a free speech issue.

“There’s a lot of paranoia out there, that’s for sure.”

DEAN CRYER, regarding the surge in violence in Los Angeles. Cryer is vice president of operations for the L.A.-based firm Panic Room Builders, which builds custom safe rooms equipped with emergency phone lines and independent water supplies that can cost from the low six figures to millions of dollars. Demand for its safe rooms has increased dramatically.

“Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me. I hate skating. I hate it. I hate this sport. I will never skate again. Never.”

Seventeen-year-old ROC silver medalist ALEXANDRA TRUSOVA, upset that her free skate, which earned the top score of the night and featured attempts at five quadruple jumps, had not won her the gold.

“This is the most difficult situation we’ve seen since 1989. Europe has not seen these kinds of troop movements since World War II.”

Polish President ANDREZJ DUDA, on the rising tensions in Ukraine. While Russia pledged to draw down its troop deployments near the Ukrainian border, it has actually increased the number of front-line troops from 100,000 to more than 170,000.