“This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.” — President Barack Obama, outlining a military campaign, using U.S. air power, against Islamic State jihadists (White House transcript, Wednesday)
“A president who has made ending the war on terrorism a central focus of his foreign policy must now make winning it a priority.” — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., after Obama’s speech (The Washington Post, Wednesday)
“The reliance on air power has all of the attraction of casual sex: It seems to offer gratification but with very little commitment.” — Retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, former chief of the CIA and National Security Agency, on Obama’s military strategy (U.S News and World Report, Thursday)
“Obama declares war against ISIS ... to eat them for lunch before they eat me for dinner.” — Headline in pro-government Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan (Los Angeles Times, Thursday)
“Smile more. You’re having fun.” — What departed Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington said in a phone call to his successor, Tim Bogar, after Bogar skippered his first game, a loss (The Dallas Morning News, Wednesday)
“Please stay with us. Stay with us because we are stronger together.” — British Prime Minister David Cameron, during a tour of Scotland to ask voters there to reject independence (The Guardian, Wednesday)
“It was sickening. It was appalling.” — Pro football commissioner Roger Goodell, on a videotape of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his financée (USA Today, Tuesday)
“You can’t say the punishment doesn’t fit the bill.” — Ravens wide receiver Torrey Smith, a close friend of Rice, on Rice’s release after the video came out (epsn.com, Tuesday)
“If your intentions were to hurt us, embarrass us, make us feel alone, take all happiness away, you’ve succeeded on so many levels.” — From a statement by Janay Rice, now married to Ray Rice, about intense media attention on the domestic violence case (Instagram, Tuesday)
“They’re going way too far and just trying to destroy this family.” — Woman wearing Rice’s No. 27 jersey at the Ravens’ home game Thursday (baltimoresun.com, Thursday)
“Hook ’em Wallace.” — Slogan on a burnt-orange T-shirt, referencing UT Regent Wallace Hall’s investigation into governance issues at UT-Austin and a grand jury probe of his activities (dallasnews.com, Tuesday)
“We’re definitely not against meat.” — John Crowley, director of child nutrition for schools in Dripping Springs, on experimenting with a meatless Monday (KVUE, Monday)
“We take no responsibility for the trouble you get yourself into if you choose to deploy your Cyborg Unplug.” — Sales disclaimer for new product designed to knock snooping drones and streaming surveillance cameras offline (CNN, Tuesday)
“With Super Cruise, when there’s a congestion alert on roads like California’s Santa Monica Freeway, you can let the car take over and drive hands-free and feet-free through the worst stop-and-go traffic around.” — General Motors CEO Mary Barra, on an auto-pilot option for 2017 Cadillacs (Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7)
“I have no intention of dying.” — Media mogul Sumner Redstone, 91, on his elaborate dietary and exercise regimen (The Hollywood Reporter, Sept. 19 edition)
Correction: An earlier version of this feature misidentified British Prime Minster David Cameron's first name as John.
