Quoteworthy

  • “The question for President Joe Biden is how to be president in a country that no longer unites in response to catastrophes. I can’t help but imagine what today’s Twitter trolls would have said about President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the day after Pearl Harbor.”—Eugene Robinson, WaPo.
  • “The Islamic Emirate wants a good and diplomatic relationship with the Americans.”—Zabihullah Mujahed, the Taliban’s main spokesman.
  • “America has no alternative but to work with the Taliban in some way to protect U.S. interests.”—David Ignatius, Washington Post.
  • “Perpetuating a costly, unwinnable war that left us enmeshed in a narco-state rife with corruption was no formula for preserving America’s stature.”—Jennifer Rubin, WaPo.
  • “The Afghan surrender is the most visible evidence that the era of Pax Americana is over.”—Bret Stephens, NYT.
  • “The fierce urgency of now.”—Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “The unvaccinated are a big highway of transmission. The vaccinated are a little side street.”—Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious disease at Vanderbilt University.
  • “If we are going to make our country more resilient to natural disasters wherever they are, we have to start preparing now. We can’t look in the rearview mirror and say, ‘Boy, I wish we were prepared.’”—Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy.
  • “The most pernicious thing about the Texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system.” —President Joe Biden.
  • “Presented with an application to enjoin a flagrantly unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising their constitutional rights and evade judicial scrutiny, a majority of (SCOTUS) justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand.”—Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
  • “Freedom is good policy and good politics.”—Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
  • “The purpose of this litigation is not to create some kind of windfall for government. The purpose is to get much needed resources on the ground to help with treatment, abatement and prevention of addiction.”—Hillsborough County Commissioner Stacy White, on Hillsborough’s share of an opioid settlement—against Johnson & Johnson and three drug distributors—that could reach $60 million for treatment, prevention and other efforts to combat the addiction crisis.
  • “This is an exciting time to take the helm of such an impactful organization.”—Bemetra Simmons, the newly named president of the Tampa Bay Partnership. Simmons, who had been the United Way Suncoast’s chief strategy and operations officer, becomes TBP’s first female–and black–CEO.
  • “It really highlights the reality out there that if people don’t trust law enforcement or they’re really worried about retaliation, it blocks us from keeping the public safe.”—Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren, on the acquittal of two murder suspects after eyewitnesses refused to testify at trial.
  • “We navigated the worst storm this ship’s ever been in. And now I’m happy to tell you we came out stronger than before the pandemic.”—TIA CEO Joe Lopano, on data showing more than 1.7 million travelers passed through the airport in July—nearly at pre-pandemic levels.

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