* “You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”–George Bernard Shaw.
* “The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.”–Margaret Thatcher.
* “In America and in Israel when a strong right-wing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep State weaponizes the justice system to thwart the people’s will. They won’t win in either place.”–Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
* “Courts must have the power to order everyone (including the executive) to follow the law—full stop.”–SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
* “We have privatized morality so that there are no longer shared values.”–David Brooks, NYT.
* “We have made no decisions about September.”–Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, on whether the Fed will cut its short-term interest rate at its next meeting.
* “Trump is not deterred by reality. He just says what he wants to say.”–John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser.
* “There is simply no reward for reaching across the aisle.”–Former Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake.
* “Corporations operate under a sword of Damocles in every interaction with the White House.”–University of Minnesota Law Professor Alan Z. Rozenshtein.
* “This is an opportunity to create the nation’s first true transcontinental railroad.”–TD Cowan stock analyst Jason Seidl, on merger talks between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
* “We have a lot of work to do with the counties. We have a lot of work to do with the cities. But what I can tell you is that I’m not going away.”–Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia, who also oversees Florida DOGE.
* “We will continue to ensure that the material in Florida schools focuses on enhancing academic achievement, not gender ideology.”–Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas.
* “I’m a big believer (that) until things happen, they don’t happen.”–Rays owner Stuart Sternberg.