- Melinda Hunt: [reading from essay by prison laborer David Sutten, who worked at Hart Island City Cemetery] "When approaching Hart's Island, you get well. I got a feeling of being cold. Not a temperature-cold, but an inner cold. Like someone on the island or something was calling or asking me something. But to sit back and think of the bodies that I'd been burying was nothing compared to thinking of myself as a Hart Island resident. Once I heard an older person tell a younger person he had one foot in the grave and the other in a jail cell. And here, I am an inmate working in a graveyard. But one thing I've learnt from Hart Island is I don't want to die nobody with nothing or no one to care about me. Hart Island was the best rehabilitation I ever had, and it's something I'll never forget. I guess it's the loneliest place in the world. And I pray, and will always pray, for the lonely and lost souls of Hart Island."
- Melinda Hunt: [describing essay by prison laborer David Sutten, who worked at Hart Island City Cemetery] I mean I'm still really moved by it. That it seemed like a place where... sort of the culture as a whole didn't care, but the inmates did.
- Kelly McCarthy: [at Homewood Memorial Gardens indigent burial site] So there's numbers on the indigents, there's numbers on their boxes. And then I compare them to my sheet.
- [pointing to paper checklist of names and serial numbers]
- Kelly McCarthy: They actually took this person off, that's why there's a line drawn through it, and we did not get a box of tissues.
- Interviewer: [off-screen] Okay, what's a box of tissues?
- Kelly McCarthy: A box of tissues is either bones or body parts mixed in with babies.
- Interviewer: [off-screen] Okay...
- Kelly McCarthy: Okay. Or it could just be strictly babies. It depends on what they put in there.
- Tom Dart: [during media conference] Individuals who go into hospitals, who have problems with the delivery of a child - babies stillborn, or die a short time after birth - they are given forms where they are allowed to have their babies signed over, for the baby to be disposed of in what we believe, in a form that makes it look as if it was a proper way. This could not be more appalling, if you wanted it to be. Babies are buried ten, fifteen to a box. They are buried in there with animal remains. They are buried in there with arms and legs from bodies and parts that they found during the course of the year. It is not anything that our county or society should ever sit there and say it is acceptable.