The Week in Words: Breaking the slide; others' fortunes; emergency plasma

"We've broken this slide."

- President Obama, on Friday's report that businesses added 162,000 jobs in March, though unemployment remained at 9.7 percent

"They're not big numbers, but they're welcome numbers." - Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group., on the jobs report

"According to the indictment, this defendant helped himself to others' fortunes, living a life of luxury, with little or no regard for the damage to our financial markets, our economy, and the reputation of the investment advisers who follow the rules." - U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy in Philadelphia, on Chester County money manager Tony Young, who is accused of stealing $25 million of client money

"The bank debt was going to be purchased by me anyway, so we did it earlier." - investor Carl Icahn, on buying the remaining half of the $500 million mortgage on the three Trump Entertainment Resorts casinos in Atlantic City that he's trying to buy out of bankruptcy

"We need to change the culture and remove the stigma associated with depression." - Federal Aviation Administration administrator Randy Babbitt, on a new FAA policy to allow some pilots to take antidepressants

It's like someone lying on the road hurt. You can give them emergency plasma now, but they still might need blood transfusions down the line." - Brian Lucey, associate professor of finance at Trinity College Dublin, on the long-term need to bail out Irish banks