The Week in Words: Reasonable profit; Netflix on reversal

"I don't love a lot of the things that Google's doing, but their core business is a powerhouse."

- Colin W. Gillis, of BCG Partners, on Google's strong quarterly report.

"All things considered, we believe the firm's returns were reasonable given the current environment."

- Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's chairman and chief executive officer, after reporting profits fell 4 percent in the third quarter.

"But I'm not running for governor of Massachusetts; I'm running for president of the United States. And as president, I will repeal 'Obamacare.' "

- Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, responding to criticism from Texas Gov. Rick Perry on the Massachusetts health-care program Romney established as governor.

"In the long run, if politicians aren't making decisions to benefit corporations, they would be able to make more decisions that would benefit the rest of us."

- Stanley Joseph, 26, a member of Occupy Philly.
"We're finding that having the solar systems makes it easier to sell the homes."

- Susan Wise of SunRun Inc., of Philadelphia, which sells solar leases to homeowners.

"I want to apologize to all the BlackBerry users we let down. Our inability to quickly fix this has been frustrating."

- Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO, Research in Motion Ltd., on the weeklong losses of service for BlackBerry customers.

"[The] nail in the coffin."

- Andrew Mills, 27, of Arkansas, on dropping BlackBerry and getting a different smartphone.

"It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs."

- Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, on the decision to kill Qwikster, which he had planned as a separate company to mail-order DVDs to customers.

"This is good news."

- Catherine Engel Menendez, Peco Energy Co. spokeswoman, on the company's forecast that residential rates will drop in 2012.