diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index 87a66900..d0b20dee 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Response Status Codes
 
 We can check the response status code::
 
-    >>> r = requests.get("http://httpbin.org/get')
+    >>> r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
     >>> r.status_code
     200
 
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 028e8b9f..7eb3efe7 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ class Request(object):
             conn.cert_reqs = 'CERT_NONE'
             conn.ca_certs = None
 
-        if self.cert and self.verify:
+        if self.cert:
             if len(self.cert) == 2:
                 conn.cert_file = self.cert[0]
                 conn.key_file = self.cert[1]