The Week in Words: Dough for Tasty Baking; airport expansion

"We're trying to find a way to keep Tastykake on its feet."

- Gov. Rendell, on the possibility of a short-term state loan to financially troubled Tasty Baking Co.

"This is pouring money down a rat hole for cronies."

- Mark Schwartz, lawyer and former investment banker, on a Tasty bailout

"It is the wrong decision, and we are going to continue to fight it in court."

- Pa. State Rep. Nick Miccarelli (R., Delaware), on FAA approval of a $5.2 billion Philadelphia airport expansion

"On balance, this was a pretty disappointing report."

- Hugh Johnson, chairman and chief investment officer of Johnson Advisors, on Friday's news that December unemployment in the United States was 9.4 percent

"Everything we see points to smaller everything."

- Ford Motor Co.'s
U.S. sales analyst, predicting an increase in small-car sales

"Companies have been pretty cautious and they've accumulated a lot of spending power, and we've seen that in purchases of equipment and software. Now they need more workers to man the equipment."

- economist Jim O'Sullivan, on employment numbers

"There are in effect several sources that are typically thought to be serious who consider that a Chinese buyer is in fact behind this operation."

- French lawmaker Bernard Carayon, on Chinese involvement in a suspected case of industrial espionage at carmaker Renault S.A.

"They're under legal attack. They're similar to the asbestos or the tobacco industry, and they're going to be repeatedly sued in the next few years."

- securities analyst Richard Bove,
on banks' defending lawsuits stemming from
the credit crisis