HOW ABOUT BUILDING CARS THAT ACTUALLY STOP?
"Helping ensure the safety of our customers and restoring confidence in Toyota are very important to our company."
- Toyota group vice president and division general manager Bob Carter explains in a news release why Toyota decided to halt sales and production of eight of its vehicle models, in light of a massive recall due to a danger of sticking accelerator pedals.
SOUNDS JUST LIKE THE LIBERALS' VOTER SUPPORT
"The truth is that despite the G20's good work over the past 15 months, the recovery is a mile wide, but only an inch deep."
- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper tells the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that it's too soon for countries to abandon their fiscal stimulus programs.
COME FOR THE COMPETITION LAW, STAY FOR THE HOOKERS
"It had everything you could want. It had guns, criminals, travel, hookers, tapes, there was everything."
- Former U.S. Department of Justice attorney Jim Mutchnik talks about the thrills and spills of a half-decade prosecuting, of all things, corporate anti-trust cases.
IS THAT WHAT YOU WANTED ME TO SAY, UNCLE STEVE?
"Steve Jobs outdid himself, it's greatest device ever!!!"
- Technology executive and industry commentator Jason Calacanis raves about Apple Inc.'s new iPad tablet device on Twitter - claiming that Apple gave him one of the gadgets to test-drive in advance of its public unveiling this week.
MAKING A VERY CRUDE OBSERVATION
"A geologist, callous as it may seem, tracing that fault zone from Port-au-Prince to the border looking for gas and oil seeps may find a structure that hasn't been drilled."
- Stephen Pierce, exploration manager at Dallas-based Zion Oil & Gas Inc., suggests the devastating earthquake in Haiti may have unearthed previously undiscovered oil and natural gas riches in the impoverished nation.
Editor's note: An earlier online version showed an image of Adam Fanaki and identified him as Jim Mutchnik. This has been corrected.
David Parkinson