The Week in Words: Abnormal red ink; tweets must go on

"One of our core values as a company is to defend and respect each user's voice. We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can, and we will be transparent with users when we can't. The tweets must continue to flow."

- Twitter blog post, in defense of its new country-by-country censorship tools.

"Altria continues to focus on lower-risk products that appeal to adult tobacco consumers."

- Altria Group Inc. chief executive officer Michael E. Szymanczyk, as the tobacco company seeks to market alternatives to cigarettes.

"It is unlikely that the faster growth experienced in the fourth quarter of 2011 will be matched in the first half of 2012. In addition to the temporary nature of some of the recent improvement, there are significant impediments to a robust recovery."

- Federal Reserve Bank of New York president William C. Dudley.

"What should give a great deal of encouragement right now is that you see more people see their standards of living rise rapidly over the last decade than any time in human history and that for some of the most disadvantaged regions of the world."

- former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

Compiled from The Inquirer, Associated Press and Bloomberg News.