“Anyone who has children in the city is in panic mode. It takes something like this for people

“Anyone who has children in the city is in panic mode. It takes something like this for people to open up their eyes and understand that not every person killed in Newark is a drug dealer.”

Donna Jackson

President of the community-based Take Back Our Streets organization in Newark, N.J., where four young people preparing to start college in the fall were shot execution style, killing three of them.

“If you look at all of the things that have to work in order to launch, including the weather ... you would conclude it’s crazy to even try.”

Former astronaut Steve Hawley

On space shuttle launches.