* “I’m going to leave it all out on the field.”–President Barack Obama.
* “Donald Trump is great at the one-liners, but he’s a chaos candidate, and he’d be a chaos president.”–Jeb Bush.
* “This isn’t about Trump. This is about do we run on substance or do we run on personality? If we run on personality, we lose those elections.”–Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
* “I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts.”–Donald Trump, from “Trump: The Art of the Deal.”
* “I don’t cry when I lose. There’s always a new hand coming up.”–Billionaire Republican benefactor Sheldon Adelson, who spent $93 million on the 2012 presidential election cycle.
* “Without a Bush or Rubio on the ticket, it is hard to imagine a Republican beating Hillary Clinton in Florida, and as Florida goes, so likely goes the nation.”–Former Florida Republican Senator George LeMieux.
* “I think I will have a Democratic successor. And I will campaign very hard to make that happen.”–President Barack Obama.
* “I’ve hit a wall here.”–Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in announcing the suspension of his presidential campaign.
* “Conservatives killed the GOP establishment in 1964. The Vietnam War and George McGovern killed the Democratic establishment in 1972. What is left are elites, collectives of officeholders past and present, donors, lobbyists, think-tankers angling for jobs, party hacks and talking heads.”–Patrick Buchanan, Creators Syndicate.
* “Walking along the streets of Old Havana, and seeing the faces of young Cubans, I felt the futility of trying to make them fit their dreams into a Cold War straitjacket.”–Secretary of State John Kerry.
* “It was nice to confirm in person how like-minded we are on so many issues. He said that seeing my family on TV on election night reminded him of his election in 2008 with his family. I’m looking forward to having a beer with him.”–New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after his initial meeting with President Barack Obama.
* “What’s the most pressing issue of our time? Ending poverty in the world. And we know to do that you have to put women and girls at the center.”–Melinda Gates.
* “Homeowner equity is the largest source of wealth for most Americans. The rise in home prices, expected to be at least 5 percent in 2016, will continue to build wealth and confidence across America. As this process continues, it will provide support for the housing market and the broader economy throughout the year.”–Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic.
* “We are just destroying the user experience.”–Tony Weisman, chief executive of DigitasLBi North America, talking about annoying online ads, including the kind that forces users to chase down a hard-to-find X to close the image.
* “If you don’t make room for the possibility that you can be intolerant, then there is a fairly good chance that you are.”–CNN news anchor Don Lemon.
* “Indoor tanning is the cigarette of this generation, it is so clearly carcinogenic.”–Dr. Mark Lebwohl, president of the American Academy of Dermatology.
* “I am especially pleased that we have secured a $2 billion boost for the National Institutes of Health, Alzheimer’s and cancer research that will lift research efforts at the University of South Florida and the Moffitt Cancer Center.”–U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, after President Barack Obama signed the budget bill that will fund the government until September.
* “I don’t like the traffic and the crowded beaches and this and that, but I think growth is Florida’s destiny.”–Robert M. Beall II, chairman, Beall’s department stores.
* “The Department of Corrections is a misnomer. They aren’t correcting behavior, attitudes, addictions and mental health problems. We’re basically punishing and releasing.”–Paula Dockery, former Florida Republican legislator.
* “Don’t think of us as a call center. The people who sit in these cubes are insurance professionals.”–Jeff Elliott, director of operations in North America for the Willis Group, a global risk advisory firm and insurance broker. It recently picked Tampa for its North American operations center that will create more than 150 jobs.
* “The very best that we could get.”–Tampa City Council member Yvonne Yoli Capin, after council approved the Raymond James Stadium renovation agreement with the Bucs.
* “Downtown Tampa has a very impressive growth story to tell and we will see continued residential and employment growth.”–Dale Peterson, vice president of CBRE, which arranged the recent sale of the Bank of America Plaza.
* “If you travel to the hubs of innovation across this nation and take a hard look at what makes some of the most productive centers of creativity and invention tick, you might notice they have a few things in common: a highly educated workforce, global engagement and diversity, and a culture that supports creativity and invention. And beer. They have lots of great craft beer.”–Mark Sharpe, CEO of the Tampa Innovation Alliance.
* “It’s not too late to stop the young people … from having guns to solve their problems. … There are other ways. There are better ways. There are more peaceful ways.”–St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman, at a downtown march to protest a recent surge in fatal gun violence.
* “One act of leaving a car unlocked may perpetuate a series of crimes.”–St. Petersburg Police Department spokesman Mike Puetz.
* “Do we really want to tarnish a young person’s entire life for these minor arrests? This begs for a really robust discussion.”–Pinellas County Commissioner Janet Long, on the upcoming workshop on a civil citation program for small marijuana busts.
* “Whoever invented ‘Thursday Night Football’ was not a player and was not a coach.”–Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.