* “Fighting this disease (Ebola) will take time. Before this is over, we may see more isolated cases here in America. But we know how to wage this fight.”–President Barack Obama.
* “If the hardest thing that happens in a given day is that you have to fly commercial, your life is pretty good.”–Secretary of State John Kerry, who, for the fourth time this year, was forced to fly home commercially when his Air Force Boeing 757 was grounded last week in Vienna.
* “Most of the swings this week were related to fears about global growth and not about the fundamentals of this market. This volatility, in a way, is pure psychological. This is the market returning to a more normalized behavior.”–James Liu, JPMorgan Funds global market strategist, on Wall Street’s volatile week.
* “Chinese investors have been on a buying binge.”–Jonathan A. Miller, chief executive of Miller Samuel, a real estate appraisal and consulting firm, after the Anbang Insurance Group of China agreed to buy the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan for $2 billion.
* “The extent and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concerns me.”–Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.
* “Ultimately, I do think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all 50 states.”–President Barack Obama.
* “I love the targeting on YouTube. I love how it’s efficient; I love the cost. It’s a great bang for your buck.”–Robert Willington, president of Swiftkurrent, a Republican digital marketing firm.
* “(Bill) Clinton was the last president we’ve had who loved politics.”–Author and Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer.
* “There’s a lot of interaction when you’re reading a book with your child. You’re turning pages, pointing at pictures, talking about the story. Those things are lost somewhat when you’re using an e-book.”–Dr. Pamela High of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
* “Mr. Dunn, your life is effectively over. What is sad … is that this case exemplifies that our society seems to have lost its way.”–Circuit Judge Russell Healey to Michael Dunn, who had just been sentenced to life without parole for the “loud music” murder of a Jacksonville teenager.
* “This (Ebola) is not something you have to worry about when you go to the grocery store or anywhere else in this country. People are much more fearful about this than they are about things that will get them, like the flu.”–Michael Butler, Jackson Health System chief medical officer.
* “The difference between Florida and Georgia is conservatives are leading the way to push for more solar and to allow freedom. In Florida, (conservatives) put up roadblocks. It’s appalling. … It’s violating free market principles.”–Debbie Dooley, national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots and founder of Conservatives for Energy Freedom.
* “Rick (Scott) has signed more pro-gun bills into law in one term than any other governor in Florida history.”–Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action.
* “It’s hard to get excited … but we’ll take it. It’s encouraging.”–Scott Brown, chief economist with Raymond James Financial, commenting on Florida’s unemployment rate falling to 6.1 percent. The national rate is 5.9 percent.
* “This teaching-to-the-test stuff has become a profit center for testing companies. And our schools are not learning centers anymore. They’re testing centers. And it’s out of control, and we need to address it, and address it quickly.”–Charlie Crist.
* “Recently Florida has successfully reduced its environmental permitting time down to just two days, and that’s great.”–Gov. Rick Scott.
* “Our goal is to power through these next three weeks to raise as much money as we can and talk to as many voters as we can to tell them why this is the right plan for Pinellas County and win this race.”–Stuart Rogel, president and CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership, a leading fundraiser for the Greenlight Pinellas campaign.
* “We’re hopeful for a deal by the end of the year.”–Ben Kirby, spokesman for St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, on stadium-site talks with the Tampa Bay Rays.
* “We, at this point, are going to continue to go forward.”–City Attorney Julia Mandell, on Tampa’s plans to continue its red-light camera program without changes.
* “I’m in favor of using buses whenever we can. Students are eight times safer on a school bus than riding with their parents and 50 times safer on a school bus than when they are driven by other kids.”–Jim Beekman, newly appointed head of transportation for the Hillsborough County School District.