Quoteworthy

  • “Iran has now launched an unprecedented attack on the world’s energy supply.”—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on the drone attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabian oil sites.
  • “My advice to the Administration is, let’s focus on trying to shore up our relationship with Pakistan.”—Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
  • “I’m just thankful we got through Bolton’s tenure without him starting a war.”—Max Bergmann, Center for American Progress senior fellow.
  • “John (Bolton) wasn’t in line with what we were doing.”—President Donald Trump.
  • “Pompeo played the game of Trump whisperer better than Bolton.”—CNN global affairs analyst Aaron David Miller.
  • “(Trump) supporters care far more about the persona than the policy.”—Brendan Buck, one-time spokesman for former Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan.
  • “Trump is not a valiant defender of the West and protector of our allies. He’s a dangerous and corrupt patsy in the hands of strongmen.”—Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post.
  • “While Mr. Trump’s thermonuclear politics may rally both his base and Democrats who slumbered in 2016, it is the paralyzing disorder and anxiety his bilious behavior creates that is a distressing turnoff to voters at the margins who will make the difference. To win, the Democrats will have to turn Mr. Trump’s negative energy against him without embodying it themselves.”—David Axelrod, former senior strategist for Barack Obama.
  • “Confrontation, which has become the Democrats’ de facto political operating system on the Hill and in the presidential primaries, excites their increasingly doctrinaire base; but it turns off independents.”—David Winston, CQ-Roll Call.
  • “I know people on the Second Amendment side go nuts when you say this, but what is the purpose of an assault weapon?”—New York Republican Rep. Peter T. King.
  • “The United States has shown the world that it is capable of putting someone like Trump in office, and that can’t be undone. He’s left the whole country compromised.”—Michelle Goldberg, New York Times.
  • “Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”—The late author, essayist, poet and humorist E.B. White.
  • “The message of this report is either we delay and pay or we plan and prosper.”—Christiana Figueres, former UN climate change official and a member of the Global Commission on Adaptation that has issued a report arguing for drastic increases in adaptation measures such as early-warning systems and resilient infrastructure.
  • “I pray there are no schisms. But I’m not scared.”—Pope Francis, referring to some alienated conservatives within the Catholic Church.
  • “We simply have to remove these attractive (non-tobacco) flavored (vaping) products from the marketplace until they secure FDA approval.”—HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
  • “When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world that you have helped create. (Governments) need to move faster and start to catch up with the pace of technology.”—Brad Smith, president of Microsoft.
  • “Like all other films we’d done, it’s an opportunity to understand who we are.”—Filmmaker Ken Burns, on his latest documentary project, the 8-part PBS miniseries “Country Music.”
  • “I want to be the last father who could say, ‘I didn’t know what was going on in the schools.’”—Andrew Pollock, the father of a student killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. and the author of “Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created the Parkland Shooter and Endangered America’s Students.”
  • “Even where I’m from, which is a very conservative area, they want this offshore drilling ban—even though they follow Trump significantly.”—Congressman Francis Rooney, R-Naples, who sponsored legislation, which was passed by the House, to permanently ban offshore drilling off Florida’s Gulf Coast.
  • “Publix respectfully requests that only law enforcement officials openly carry firearms in our stores.”—Publix spokesman Brian West.
  • “There was once a perception that we could not grow international here in this airport. There’s pent-up demand in this market.”—TIA CEO Joe Lopano.
  • “Our needs are more urgent than ever. We are out of space completely on the research side … On the hospital side, we have the same number of beds we did 12 years ago. We’re nearly always full or near capacity.”—Dr. Alan List, CEO and president of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institution, who’s making a pitch for more state funding.
  • “We are on a journey here. We are making fantastic progress, but we still have some milestones coming up.”—USF President Steve Currall, referring to the upcoming implementation of recently unveiled campus-consolidation plans.

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