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"If we continue to get more and more debt, we will see a Greek scenario here and this generation will have to pay dearly for the stupidity of those that have delayed decisions."
— Slovenia's prime minister, Janez Jansa, in saying the country may ask for an international bailout if lawmakers fail to adopt legislation to limit public spending.
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"The good news is that this time around expectations are very low; the bad news is that the main players seem to be diametrically opposed when it comes to a strategy for ending the crisis."
— Gary Jenkins, managing director of Swordfish Research, a London-based consulting firm, on the summit of European leaders.
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"The first one thousand summits, I was pretty excited."
— a deadpanning Jeff Sica, president and chief investment officer of SICA Wealth Management in Morristown, N.J.
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"It's an engineering problem and there will be an engineering solution."
— ExxonMobile chief executive Rex Tillerson, on climate change.
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"Facebook is clearly looking to try to raise more revenue, especially as questions about their ad model keep getting raised."
— Dan Petty, social media editor for the Denver Post, on Facebook's decision to charge some users for what it calls "promoted posts."
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"They are not quality issues anyone would want the FDA or other regulators to look the other way on — glass shards, metal fractures, contaminants."
— Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, defending FDA actions amid criticism that agency action stifles the economy.
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"He often said it felt like he was sitting on marbles."
— Whitehall, Pa., resident Pat Lorenz, speaking of her husband, Steve, whose hip replacements have been recalled by the manufacturer.
Compiled from The Inquirer, Associated Press and Bloomberg News.
