The Week in Words: Much to be fixed; we're floating on air

"[There is] much to be fixed in this broken market. It was, after all, the house of cards that crashed our economy and caused so much pain for millions of Americans."

- Richard Cordray, first director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Monday in outlining his goals.

"Now that the Affordable Care Act has passed, being a woman is no longer a preexisting condition."

- Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, said Thursday in discussing the challenges of some women, especially African American women, in getting access to affordable health insurance.

"We continue to see signs on a local and regional level that the frozen-up foreclosure process is beginning to thaw. Foreclosure activity increased on a year-over-year basis for the first time in more than 12 months in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania."

- Brandon Moore, chief executive officer of RealtyTrac Inc., said Wednesday, ahead of the release of a report Thursday that tracks foreclosure data.

"We no longer have departments of chemistry, we no longer have departments of biology. We have everybody integrated into the same organization. . . . What is the chance of a coincidental or serendipitous discovery if you've never met your coworker? What is the chance of that spontaneous insight if you've never looked at a piece of biology when you're a chemist? There's no chance. And the whole point of this change is to re-create that atmosphere."

- Sir Andrew Witty, newly knighted CEO of GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C., said Monday in explaining why an open-table concept rather than cubicles will dominate the company's new space at the Navy Yard.

"I think we're floating on air."

Ben Schwartz, of Lightspeed Financial, on how the market seems determined to move higher, despite incremental and vague news about the Greek debt crisis and sometimes-conflicting reports on the U.S. economy.

Compiled from The Inquirer, Associated Press.