Notable and quotable

“This was a brutal, vicious crime — savage, and it shows Philip Markoff is a man who is willing to take advantage of women, to hurt them, to beat them, to rob them. He probably thought he was going to get away with it.”

Daniel Conley

Boston area district attorney, after the arraignment of a medical student who is accused of fatally shooting a masseuse he had lured to his hotel through Craigslist.

“I don’t take back what I said. It’s not about being politically correct. For me, it’s about being biblically correct.”

Miss California Carrie Prejean

Defending comments about gay marriage she made at the Miss USA pagent.