In Quotes... ----------------------------------------------------------------- "If the gun manufacturer doesn't use existing safety technologies and somebody is hurt by that gun, the gun manufacturer ought to be liable." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Teret, director of the Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, on WMAR's 5 p.m. newscast on Jan. 22, on efforts to develop a safer gun. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "I've never been more honored by a commission." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Peabody director Robert Sirota, in the Jan. 17 Baltimore Messenger, on being asked by his son Jonah to compose a work for his senior viola recital at the Juilliard School of Music. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "We've missed the opportunity to hear the prodigy of the century." ----------------------------------------------------------------- History professor Michael P. Johnson, in the Jan. 8 Baltimore Sun, on missing the performance at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall of Russian wunderkind pianist Evgeny Kissin because of the blizzard. ----------------------------------------------------------------- "This administration is a champion of wrongdoing. They ... are so relentless in their efforts to cover up that you think there must be many bodies buried somewhere." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg, in the Jan. 7 Baltimore Sun, on the Clinton administration's Whitewater and travel office scandals.