Their length gives me a headache, but I don't see anything 'right' or 'wrong' about the 4 sentences in your #1 and #2. I don't think it is a matter of focus on the quote, though-- the writer of both just wants to get the long quotation isolated. In #1 the quote makes an overly long subject, and in #2 is is a long interruption to the core statement.
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