The Week in Words: Come-and-go mojo; attack governor; building on numbers

"The economy just seemed to be getting its mojo back. The question, now, is when will higher energy prices take that mojo away?"

- PFGBest analyst Phil Flynn

"Let me tell you something: We won't lose any business to Illinois as long as Pat Quinn's the governor. He's a disaster."

- New Jersey Gov. Christie, who is trying to lure Illinois businesses to New Jersey

"Instead of making personal attacks on other governors, Gov. Quinn is focused on getting our state's fiscal house in order and continuing to make Illinois an even stronger economic competitor."

- Quinn spokeswoman Brie Callahan

"It's time to put the interest of the warfighter first, and we're stepping aside."

- Ralph Crosby Jr., chairman of EADS North America, on why his company won't appeal the Air Force's decision to go with Chicago-based Boeing Co. on a $35 billion refueling-tanker deal
"These numbers can be sustained and built on. Businesses are finally taking some of those profits they are earning and putting them back into the workforce."

- Joel Naroff at Naroff Economic Advisors
in Bucks County, on Friday's improved unemployment
figures

"You're getting a picture of an economy that is quite strong already and perhaps gathering momentum."

- Stephen Stanley,
economist at Pierpont Securities L.L.C.

"We want to know if there's a problem here."

- Stanley States, of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, on the authority's plan to test water after a news report that radioactive gas-drilling wastewater may have been discharged into Pennsylvania's streams