- Any graduate student will testify that science doesn’t stop just because the government has illegally kidnapped you.
- Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight. "My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."
- casual inhumanity presented as "good work ethic."