* “The free world is coming together to confront Putin.”–President Joe Biden.
* “Putin wants to restore Imperial Russia. … He wants to restore Russian hegemony over its former states: Ukraine first.”–Llewellyn King, executive producer and host of PBS’s “White House Chronicle.”
* “The Russian president has now definitely put an end to the post-Cold War era, which rested on an assumption that major European land wars were gone for good.”–Mary Elise Sarotte, historian and author of “Not One Inch: America, Russia and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate.”
* “The war in Ukraine is being fought not only with tanks and missiles, but also with propaganda and censorship. … (Putin’s) regime has erected a digital iron curtain.”–Eugene Robinson, Washington Post.
* “Isolated and under sanctions, alone against the world, Russia looks as though it is being remade in its president’s image.”–Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, the author of “All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin.”
* “Taiwan will eventually return to the embrace of the motherland.”–Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
* “The great enemy of truth is often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”–John F. Kennedy.
* “Rights are universal. If welfare is not universal, then it is not a right.”–Danny Wardle, Jacobin.
* “A $32 increase in the price of crude oil translates to 80 cents at the pump. … It’s extremely volatile right now.”–AAA spokesman Mark Jennings.
* “I’m not religious, but I think there was an element of faith (in investing in Tampa). It was a big TV area and very beautiful.”–Water Street Tampa developer and Lightning owner Jeff Vinik.
* “I have deep concerns for the safety of students who identify as LGBTQ+ if we create a dangerous environment where discussion about gender and sexual identity is feared. Our teachers create safe havens for students to learn and grow, not call into question their ‘sex-coded DNA’ as right-wing pundits would have us believe.”–Florida State Senate Democratic leader Lauren Book, a former teacher.
* “An on-campus stadium elevates not only our athletic programs, but our entire university.”–Frank and Carol Morsani, who have given USF $5 million toward an on-campus facility.
* “Savor the past. Embrace the future.”–West Tampa Chamber of Commerce.