- “Feigning ignorance about Israeli nuclear weapons makes a mockery of America’s efforts at nonproliferation.”—City University of New York professor of journalism and political science Peter Beinart.
- “Foreign aid is superfluous if you’re running the world’s largest narco-state. That is what Afghanistan under the Taliban threatens to become.”—Elaine Shannon, author of “Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire.”
- “We know Afghanistan, we know it well. We saw how this country is built and how counterproductive it is to try to force unnatural forms of government and public life upon it.”—Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- “Employers must confront the broadening disconnect between how they and their employees see the future. At best, the rosy messaging of a grand return to the office is falling flat.”—From a McKinsey & Co. survey.
- “Chance favors only the prepared mind.”—Louis Pasteur.
- “According to the (Census Bureau) 2020 count, the number of white people in this country has fallen for the first time since the first census of 1790. … We already know what that leads to. Indeed, hysteria over the pending loss of straight, white, Christian primacy has driven the tumult of the last decade and a half.”—Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald.
- “Looming large in vaccination hesitancy among blacks is distrust in American health care rooted in medical racism and experimentation.”—Clyde W. Ford, Los Angeles Times.
- “We cannot have government officials pick and choose what laws they want to follow.”—Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran.
- “There is no doubt in my mind that the Piney Point spill has contributed in a major way to the Red Tide inside Tampa Bay.”—State Rep. William Robinson, R-Bradenton.
- “We anticipate that we will begin to see regular sailings from Port Tampa Bay starting again in mid-October, so we’re excited about that.”—Wade Elliot, Port Tampa Bay’s vice president of business development.
- “Take it on. We sometimes have to go against unjust acts of authority for the sake of our children.”—Former Tampa City Council member Scott Paine, in addressing the Hillsborough County School Board on mask requirements in schools.
“In Tampa we’re getting more younger buyers, which we don’t see as much of in Naples or Sarasota.”—Anthony Solomon, owner of Ronto Group, which is building the 23-story Altura Bayshore condo tower.