* “Beijing can signal all it likes when it comes to the stock market, but it can only cause prices to rise if it purchases large amounts of stocks; signaling no longer works.”–Michael Pettis, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and finance professor at Peking University.
* “The U.S. economy entered the current market turbulence with momentum, which will help it to shrug off the drag from China and other developing economies.”–Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial chief economist.
* “We have been for some time clamoring about our nation’s lack of capacity to sustain any meaningful presence in the arctic.”–Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft.
* “It’s a matter of time. It’ll be lifted and we’ll have normal relations. We should have done it a long time ago.”–John Block, former agriculture secretary under Ronald Reagan, on the trade embargo that still remains between the U.S. and Cuba.
* “The party of Lincoln has become the party of Trump.”–Hillary Clinton.
* “I don’t need his endorsement. I certainly wouldn’t want his endorsement. I don’t need anybody’s endorsement.”–Donald Trump’s response to praise from former Ku Klu Klan grand wizard David Duke.
* “Trump’s the only one who can make Biden seem disciplined.”–Matthew Dowd, former campaign strategist for George W. Bush.
* “The political establishment is still rigging the game to keep Carly off the main debate stage next month.”–Carly Fiorina deputy campaign manager Sarah Isgur Flores, in insinuating that CNN and the RNC will try to keep Fiorina off the candidate debate stage on Sept. 16.
* “…The person who might as well wear a sign that says ‘perfect Republican vice-presidential candidate.’ I mean Marco Rubio, who can seem too green for the top job but not for the No. 2 spot.”–Frank Bruni, New York Times.
* “I know how to do this. Because I was a reform-minded governor who got things done in a very purple state. … Making a commitment to reach out, to be able to get people who don’t share every view you have, to build consensus, is something that I had experience doing.”–Jeb Bush.
* “His (Bush) problem is that his idea of governing is you have to agree with him 100 percent of the time. As long as everybody agrees with him, he’ll forge consensus.”–Former Republican state Senator and Florida Senate majority leader Alex Villalobos.
* “It (presidential nomination process) shouldn’t be decided by a few votes in Iowa or New Hampshire. Nothing against them–I know they take the race very seriously.”–Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.
* “Disagreement is not a reason to stop talking. Truth to tell, it’s a reason to start.”–Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald.
* “There are important benefits, even to the employer, from paying (minimum-wage employees) more: better morale, lower turnover, increased productivity. These benefits largely offset the direct effect of higher labor costs, so that raising the minimum wage needn’t cost jobs after all.”–Paul Krugman, New York Times.
* “It is almost impossible to comprehend how a human being is capable of such acts. … Sheriff, get the defendant out of my courtroom, please.”–Judge Carlos A. Samour, in sentencing convicted mass murderer James Holmes to 12 consecutive life terms without parole.
* “Obama, Hillary, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders are out to fundamentally destroy America. I believe that in my heart.”–Defense contractor Todd Wilcox, one of the four Republicans running to succeed Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate.
* “I would go so far as to call it an epidemic.”–National Association of Home Builders CEO Jerry Howard, on the state of construction-job shortages in Florida that are driving up new home prices.
* “We think Florida is an attractive state. People definitely want to live there. And particularly in Tampa, we think there’s a strong talent pool in the area. We found the site to be very attractive.”–Ernie Knewitz, Johnson & Johnson vice president for global media relations, on J&J choosing Tampa for its North American shared-services headquarters.
* “I will tell you one of the lessons from this is how powerful one success can be. I know that when Bristol-Myers Squibb put their North American Capability Center here, it made a big impression on Johnson & Johnson.”–Rick Homans, CEO of the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp.
* “My responsibility is to the broader community, not to the loudest members of the community.”–Mayor Bob Buckhorn, on the creation of a Citizens Review Board that will recommend ways to improve police relationships with the community it serves.
* “He wants people to love to read.”–Jan Gruetzmacher, on the legacy of her late father, John Germany.
* “They will never see the inside of a courtroom again as lawyers. They are finished.”–John Fitzgibbons, attorney for C. Philip Campbell, on Pinellas Senior Judge Douglas Baird’s recommendation of permanent disbarment against DUI-setup attorneys Stephen Diaco, Robert Adams and Adam Filthaut.
* “Irish and Brits spend a lot of money here, invest a lot in real estate particularly in our waterfront communities and are our trading partners. We want to continue to grow those relationships.”–Mayor Bob Buckhorn, before leaving on a trade mission to Dublin, Ireland.