Noted & quoted.

• Position: SOUNDBITES

'Cattle will line up and get into a pen. People won't.'

--Michael J. Boyd, a Colorado airline industry consultant, on how difficult it is to come up with ways to end the airport bottlenecks that inevitably seem to occur when passengers are boarding planes. [The New York Times, October 23]

'I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as Secretary of State.'

--Condoleezza Rice, at a memorial service in Montgomery, Ala., for civil, rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who died at 92 on October 24. [The New...