"What the Latino community wants today is respect. How do you tell the community that César Chávez isn't good enough when this city has a 60 percent Latino population?" – Mayor Pro Tem Elba Garcia, on renaming Ross Avenue for the late Mexican-American labor leader (The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday)

"It's like anything; it's hard to change that, and those are my memories, too." – Dallas City Council member Jerry Allen, on why he wants to keep Ross Avenue's name (The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday)

"This case is about pure evil." – Joe Murphy, Smith County assistant district attorney, on an alleged child sex ring in Mineola (The Dallas Morning News, Tuesday)

"This can't be a crime because Heavenly Father is the one that tells Warren [Jeffs] when a girl is ready to get married and that he is only following the word of Heavenly Father." – Unidentified 14-year-old FLDS girl, defending underage "spiritual marriage" in a statement to CPS investigator Ruby Gutierrez (The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday)

"It has nothing to do with me being worried about being beat up. I want to do it just to get it done." – Rep. Pete Sessions, Dallas Republican, pledging his support to get online poker legalized, in a private meeting last year with gaming lobbyists (Park Cities People, Wednesday)

"Paranoid man works with deadly anthrax!!!" – The late Bruce Ivins, a mentally ill government scientist believed to have been the anthrax killer, in a 2000 e-mail message predicting a tabloid headline (The Washington Post, Wednesday)

"I never thought I'd say this, but Paris Hilton's plan is sound." – Energy analyst Peter Beutel, on the stunt presidential candidate's energy proposal (Boston Herald, Thursday)

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