Shouldn't it be "quotes" instead?

Are you asking about the difference between "smart quotes" (the curvy quotes that are different for opening as they are for closing marks) and straight quotes (which are just little straight lines for both opening and closing)?

The first quotes (the smart ones) are correct. We use the straight quotes out of convenience. Most of us don't notice.

A side note... the "smart" quotes are a real pain in the ass for programmers. Compilers don't accept them in code and occasionally they cause other technical problems.

We generally turn off the smart quote feature completely and just use the technically simpler straight quotes. There is a fairly easy way to distinguish between writing English and writing code that would fix this issue... but we are too lazy to bother.

I'm sorry, maxdancona. I forgot to highlight 'reports'.

Today reports the president of the Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology of Singapore, Dr Joseph Ng, as saying, “Parents think that if you vaccinate, that’s going to give their kids license to be sexually promiscuous. However, that’s been shown to be untrue in the United States. We know (the vaccine) doesn’t change sexual behavior at all.”

Shouldn't it be "quotes" instead of "reports"?

Thanks.

That's funny, I answered the wrong question . You used smart quotes on top and straight quotes on the bottom. That confused me...

I prefer "reports" in this context.

On an unrelated noted, if I were editing this, I would want you to rephrase it to make the doctor the subject of the sentence. It would be something like.

Dr. Joseph Ng said "..... " as reported on Today.

News organisations report the news, they don't quote the news. Report is correct.

Thanks to both of you.