* “Fear cannot be the guide for political action.”–German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
* “As we have anticipated, Zika is now here.”–Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
* “The U.S. economy is in far better shape than most countries and is therefore seen as a safe location for investment.”–Christopher McCarthy, director of the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economic and Business Research.
* “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”–Donald Trump.
* “This is an attack not on one party but on the integrity of American democracy. … It is not unthinkable that those responsible will steal and release more files, and even salt the files they release with plausible forgeries.”–The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Group.
* “There’s a dissonance in (Trump’s) bleak dystopia and his brass diss-topia as he switches from Dr. Strangelove to Don Rickles.”–Maureen Dowd, New York Times.
* “(Donald Trump) is devoid of feeling the pain of a mother who has sacrificed her son.”–Ghazala Khan.
* “Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means.”–Khizr Khan.
* “It is easy to boo. But it is harder to look your kids in the face who would be living under a Donald Trump presidency.”–Bernie Sanders.
* “America has not elected an angry president since Andrew Jackson, long before television brought presidents into everyone’s living room, where anger is discomfiting.”–George Will, Washington Post.
* “What Richard Nixon (in 1968) understood is that when the world is falling apart, people want a strong leader whose highest priority is protecting America first. … I am the law and order candidate.”–Donald Trump.
* “He (Trump) has already done damage, just by running for president. He has undermined our fight against ISIS by alienating our Muslim partners. He has weakened our standing in the world by threatening to walk away from our friends and our allies.”–Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
* “I think for Trump to win this election, four things would have to happen: historically bad Democrat turnout, historically good Republican turnout, Trump overperforming even Ronald Reagan in some rural areas and Clinton underperforming in suburban areas. I don’t think any of those things are going to happen.”–David Plouffe.
* “Does Trump have to run the table of the top three (Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania) targets? Absolutely. The fact that we have to worry about winning Pennsylvania to win the presidency tells you it’s a difficult task.”–Republican strategist John Brabender.
* “We have the bench that people complain about and it’s at the municipal level, where we have not been gerrymandered.”–Florida Democratic Party chairwoman Allison Tant.
* “We’re going to win in 2016, we’re going to break their barrier, and then we’re coming back in 2018 and we’re taking our state back.”–Mayor Bob Buckhorn.
* “Make no mistake, Rick Scott and Donald Trump are cut from the same wing of the Republican Party–not the conservative wing, but the con man wing.”–Florida Congresswoman Gwen Graham.
* “The Tampa Bay region may not yet have evolved into a Silicon Valley-style technology hub. But now, with this direct flight, we have been ordained as a shiny new spoke.”–Tampa lawyer Brent Britton, a high-profile, tech-community leader, on TIA’s announcement that it had finally won a non-stop from Tampa to San Francisco.
* “With the right vision, this could be the new crown jewel of our skyline.”–Mayor Bob Buckhorn, on the city’s invitation to developers to submit proposals for a mixed-use project on a city-owned, N. Florida Avenue parking lot across from City Hall.
* “We traveled a lot and learned a lot about what works. But we had to come up with something that was authentic to Tampa. Having this building was a hell of a head start.”–Chas Bruck, Soho Capital partner, on the significance of the historic brick Armature Works building to their plans for The Heights.
* “We are delighted to welcome Linea Peninsular to Port Tampa Bay. Linea Peninsular enjoys a well-deserved reputation as the premiere ocean carrier between Mexico and the United States.”–Paul Anderson, CEO of Port Tampa Bay, in announcing a deal to begin a container shipping service between Mexico and Tampa.