“When a firefighter dies, everyone knows him because we are all from the same cut.”

“When a firefighter dies, everyone knows him because we are all from the same cut.”

John Bruno

A retired captain for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, on the deaths of seven firefighters, killed in a helicopter crash at a wildfire.

“They chose to make this a test case.”

Attorney David Remes

Saying a military jury’s decision to sentence Osama bin Laden’s driver to just 51‚Ñ2 years in prison is a defeat for the Bush administration.

“If you had Rees Jones redo ‘Scrabble,’ he’d leave out the vowels.”

Golfer Paul Goydos

On golf course architect Rees Jones, whose redesign of the Oakland Hills course prompted Ben Hogan to nickname it “The Monster.”