1. ‘Europe is the vigilant cop on the beat and the United States is strolling around with the nightstick behind its back.’ — Law professor Robert H. Lande on Microsoft’s antitrust case in Europe.
2. ‘Nothing here is good for the dollar.’ — JosephTrevisani, chief market analyst at FX Solutions, on the Fed’s rate cut.
3. ‘John was the cheerful peacemaker, the steady hand, who came in … and told us the good news was, the Sun-Times had been making more money than we thought, and the bad news was, it had been stolen.’ — Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert on the announced resignation of Publisher John Cruickshank.
4. ‘If I were Macy’s, asking how to drive traffic to our stores around holidays, who better than FAO Schwarz?’ — Steven Platt, director of Platt Retail Institute, on the toy seller’s move into Macy’s State Street Store.
5. ‘Mattel … apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people.’ — Thomas Debrowski, Mattel’s executive vice president for worldwide operations, apologizing to Chinese product safety chief Li Changjiang.
