1. ‘The world will be on sale. Going into fall, they’ll give us bargain-basement deals.’ — Tom Parsons, BestFares.com chief executive, on airfares this fall
2. ‘We know the next two years will require hard work on all our parts …’ — Mayor Richard Daley, after the city formally entered the international competition to host the 2016 Olympics
3. ‘We’re eliminating the time that we had to deal with anything unexpected that might come up.’ — Mike Bair, who leads Boeing Co.’s Dreamliner program
4. ‘If they don’t lower the federal funds rate, it will be one of the largest mistakes in Federal Reserve history.’ — Former Fed member Lyle Gramley, speaking about Fed policymakers, who will meet Sept. 18 to decide whether to cut their benchmark rate
5. ‘Today’s employment report was very clearly the weakest of this cycle and vividly portrays a recession-bound economy.’ — Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg
