* “If they (North Korea) continue to have nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons must spread in the rest of Asia.”–Henry Kissinger.
* “The reason North Korea is developing a hydrogen bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles is not to go to war with the United States. It’s to stop the Americans from intervening in armed skirmishes or full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula.”–Cheong Seong-chang, an analyst at the Sejong Institute near Seoul.
* “Our way is our way, and we cannot change it because of the Catalan situation.”–Basque nationalist leader Andoni Ortuzar, reflecting on an area of Spain where separatist tensions have ebbed. The Basque region already has greater autonomy than Catalonia.
* “We’ve ended the EPA intrusion into your jobs and into your lives. And we’re refocusing the EPA on its core mission: clean air and clean water.”–President Donald Trump.
* “As much as the country needs a conservatism with some idea of what it’s doing, some theory of the common good, it needs a liberalism that stops marinating in its own self-righteousness long enough to compete effectively for rural, Southern and Midwestern voters.”–Ross Douthat, New York Times.
* “Ideological fantasies notwithstanding, there never was a time when the invisible hand of the free market was left to its own devices, even in the golden era of laissez-faire capitalism in the 19th century. Even back then the government was relied on to build the infrastructure of a market economy–its roads, canals, wharves, waterworks, and the like–and to provide infant industry with tax exemptions, land grants, subsidies and protection from foreign competition.”–Steve Fraser, author of “The Limousine Liberal.”
* We voted for Sanders.”–Jimmy Carter, in acknowledging that he and Rosalynn voted for Bernie Sanders in last year’s Democratic primary.
* “Left to scrounge for the crumbs of an ever-shrinking piece of the advertising revenue pie, online publishers, deprived of paid subscribers, are increasingly forced to compromise their editorial convictions in the dogged pursuit of internet traffic. … Prioritizing these ends has nurtured an editorial mindset that is quickly diminishing the quality of our nation’s public square.”–Daniel Kishi, the American Conservative.
* “If China and Russia are able to advance their A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) further than ours, they’re going to kick our ass.”–Mark Cuban.
* “We are in a new era to which I do not belong.”–Former President Calvin Coolidge, 1932.
* “O’Reilly’s suggestion that no one ever complained about his behavior was false. I know because I complained.”–NBC News host–and former Fox News host–Megyn Kelly.
* “People need to be afraid not just of doing these things, but also of not doing anything when someone around them does it.”–Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, on changing the culture of sexual harassment in the workplace.
* “The toughest interviews are with somebody funny. Interviewing Al Franken is hard, because if you’re not careful, you can catch yourself wanting to try to make him funny.”–Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
* “You should have a balanced happiness portfolio the same way you’d have a balanced financial portfolio.”–Dan Buettner, author of “The Blue Zones of Happiness.”
* “I may be a hugger, but in a moment, in a second, just like that, it can turn into a headlock.”–Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham.
* “I believe we need good relations with Cuba. They are our neighbor.”–David Straz, member of the recent Tampa delegation to Cuba and likely mayoral candidate.
* “The mission that was given to us is make Florida the leading state in cybersecurity.”–Sri Sridharan, executive director of the USF-affiliated Florida Center for Cybersecurity.
* “We need to stop doing things that attract cars.”–Tom Hall, chairman of the Tampa-based Tucker/Hall marketing and consulting firm.
* “I am humbled by it. They usually do such things for people when they die. So it’s an eerie experience. But it’s nice that they have given me the opportunity to say thank you in life.”–Retired Judge E.J. Salcines, who what it’s like to have a statue of yourself.”
* “If you don’t want to go to prison, don’t commit the crime. I’m sorry, but it’s got to stop with the individual.”–Pinellas juvenile court Judge James Pierce, in addressing the alarming incidence of juvenile car thieves.