* “Who am I to judge?”—The late Pope Francis.
* “The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”—English essayist William Hazlitt.
* “Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”—President Jimmy Carter.
* “…Trump’s team sees Europe as a parasitic, freeloading ally and its liberal democracies as political and ideological adversaries.”—Celia Belin, head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
* “The challenge for Europe is how to deal with a predatory America willing to use the vulnerability of allies to extort them—whether it’s a mineral deal in Ukraine or attempts to annex Greenland.”—Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
* “No court in the U.S. has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.”—Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
* “Tariffs won’t make us safer. They won’t bring back lost jobs. They won’t build stronger supply chains. What they will do is raise prices on American consumers, inject chaos into global markets, and alienate the allies we need to compete with China.”—Jordan Valdes, former international trade adviser to the Small Business Administration during the Obama Administration.
* “The greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s.”—Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, referring to the Administration’s crusade against universities.
* “Mr. Trump puts stock in the Madman Theory—that a leader gains an edge when foes fear he’ll do something insane.”—Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal.
* “The moves of Trump embolden foreign leaders who know the US is now an autocratic ally, and there will be no consequences for repressive behavior.”—NYU history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
* “Immigration enforcement must be lawful and humane, not weaponized for political stunts.”—Florida Congresswoman Kathy Castor.
* “We are going to have to keep tightening our belts and watching every penny.”—Hillsborough County School Board member Nadia Combs, in response to expectations of lean state budgets.
* “I see the Tampa Bay region, Tampa-St. Pete, as a major league market.” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.
* “(Tampa Bay) is a growing destination for pretty much the whole world.”—Rolando Damas, managing director for Avianca Airlines, Colombia’s largest. It will be making TIA’s first non-stop flight to South America.
* “Sixty-five years later, we really haven’t changed a whole lot. We’re still all about the automobile. We had more lanes, but then we add more cars.”—Tampa Bay History Center historian Rodney Kite-Powell, on the opening of the newly expanded Howard Frankland Bridge.