QUOTES

“We’ve turned the corner. Looks like we have growth in front of us. We really need help from oil markets to get that growth heated up.”

— Bill Gilmer, director of the Institute for Regional Forecasting at the University of Houston, in his semiannual forecast

“It’s quite clear that the ACA is still functioning, and functioning reasonably well.”

— Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation

“We want to be the company that can attract investors to a sector that has underperformed for far too long. We know the lowcost producer wins in this business.”

— ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance

“Are we really going to make the (Justice Department) use antitrust law to force the sale of a cable channel because the president doesn’t like its news coverage? You can dislike consolidation but still find this extremely disturbing if true.”

— Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democratic member of the Federal Communications Commission

“I’m even busier after Harvey. We have clients that are rebuilding, clients that are purchasing and selling homes as is.”

— Real estate agent Matthew Guzman