The Quotes of the Day

Today’s quotes:

"If the U.S. refuses to take these people, why should we? If all 50 states in America say, ‘Sorry, we can’t take them,’ this is not very convincing." — Thomas Silberhorn, member of the German Parliament from Bavaria, one of several locations in Europe where the Obama administration hopes to send prisoners from Guantanamo Bay

"What we are seeing is the ongoing debate about green shoots versus brown weeds. Whether the improvement in recent economic data is going to lead to a sustainable recovery." — Song Seng Wun, head of research, CIMB Singapore

"I probably wouldn’t have gone organic if I knew it would end this way." — Vermont dairy farmer Ken Preston, bemoaning the recent boom-to-bust saga of the $1.3 billion organic milk industry (quoted in The New York Times)

"That’s what great players do. Great players put their teams on their back and everybody steps up when the ball comes to them. But you have to have a player like LeBron who puts them on his back." — Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown, after his star LeBron James either scored or assisted on 32 consecutive points in the second half of Cleveland’s Game 5 win over Orlando in the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals