“What we really need is a cultural revolution. Online, we’ve got a compassion deficit — an empathy crisis.” — Monica Lewinsky, 41, in her first public address, a speech to under-30 entrepreneurs (Forbes, Tuesday)
“We hid under tables, up against the walls and blocked the doors.” — Quebec lawmaker Mylene Freeman, after a gunman fatally shot an honor guard and ran into Canada’s Parliament building, where he died in a shootout (The Wall Street Journal, Thursday)
“We want to be richer. That’s the history.” — Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, addressing the theme of a symposium that asked, “What Does Dallas Want to Be?” (The Dallas Morning News, Friday)
“God is not afraid of new things.” — Pope Francis, on the church adapting to cultural changes (USA Today, Monday)
“The drama of the outcome is not who wins, but what the margin will be.” — Jim Henson, co-director of a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll that found Republican Greg Abbott with a double-digit lead over Democrat Wendy Davis in the governor’s race (Texas Tribune, Thursday)
“Mr. President, don’t touch my girlfriend.” — Chicago voter Mike Jones, joking to President Barack Obama, who stepped into a voting booth between the couple
“There is an example of a brother just embarrassing me for no reason.” — Obama’s comeback (CNN, Monday)
“The president’s not relevant. He’s gone in two years.” — Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, distancing himself from Obama during a tough re-election fight (Washington Examiner, Thursday)
“Middle-schoolers are some of the most ferocious and scary animals on the planet.” — Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, hoping that students would support returning classmates who had been under observation for Ebola symptoms (The Dallas Morning News, Tuesday)
“Obama’s fault.” — From a tweet by real estate mogul Donald Trump, blaming a New York Ebola case on the White House’s opposition to travel restrictions from West Africa (USA Today, Friday)
“Like I said, if you have to tell them who you is, you ain’t.” — Legendary Fort Worth Dunbar basketball coach Robert Hughes Sr., winningest boys coach of all time, whose story is headed to the big screen (KDFW-TV, Fox 4, Wednesday)
“Once you have cyborg sex, you will never want to return to normal sex.” — Utah inventor Rich Lee, who foresees spinal implants that would enable massive Internet orgies (The Telegraph, Monday)
“We weren’t sure exactly what big problem we were solving, except for this global lack of hoverboard skate parks.” — Rich DeVaul, senior Google engineer, on a project to develop a hovering skateboard like the one in “Back to the Future Part II” (The New York Times, Tuesday)
“In the future, we’ll be sure to sharpen our controls.” — Spokesman for the Swiss retailer Migros, apologizing for distributing coffee creamer with Adolf Hitler’s picture on the label (New York Daily News, Thursday)
“He gave me some punches in the mouth, and I gave him some punches in the mouth.” — New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, on his matchup last week against Dallas Cowboys tackle Tyron Smith (The New York Times, Monday)
“I love the emblem. I dig it. It gives me a little fire and some oomph.” — Texas-born actor Matthew McConaughey, on the logo of his favorite pro football team, the Washington Redskins (GQ, November edition)
