* “Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016.”–Petteri Taalas, head of the World Meteorological Organization.
* “Germany and America are bound by common values: democracy, freedom, as well as respect for the rule of law and the dignity of each and every person regardless of their origin, skin color, creed, gender, sexual orientation or political views.” Cooperation with the U.S. must be “based on these values.”–German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
* “I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed, then the country succeeds.”–President Barack Obama.
* “I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel.”–President-Elect Donald Trump.
* “We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.”–Hillary Clinton.
* “It’s really important to send some signals of unity.”–President Barack Obama.
* “My operative theory of presidential succession is people always choose the remedy to what they have; they never choose the replica–even when the incumbent is popular.”–Democratic strategist David Axelrod.
* “The electorate that President-elect Trump was able to successfully tap into is one that feels a tremendous amount of economic uncertainty. And much of that they’re blaming on the forces of globalization, fairly or not. TPP got caught up in that.”–Chad Brown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
* “Democrats need to speak more directly to voter anger. They’ll hopefully remold the party in Elizabeth Warren’s image and have a more authentic message that channels that anger in a more productive direction than Donald Trump’s authoritarian message.”–Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
* “The early suffragists believed as soon as the vote came in, women would show the same sense of solidarity. But that didn’t prove to be true at all.”–Theda Skocpol, professor of sociology and government at Harvard University.
* “What our country needs now more than anything is civility, kindness and grace in our elected officials.”–Newly elected Congressman Charlie Crist.
* “I cannot remember another president-elect who has been so dismissive of intelligence received during a campaign or so suspicious of the quality and honesty of the intelligence he was about to receive.”–Former CIA Director Michael Hayden.
* “It’s about to get real. Being president is not a reality television show. He’s set exceedingly high expectations and now he’s got to try to produce. It won’t be easy.”–Peter Wehner, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
* “Who’s going to tell him he’s wrong?”–Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post.
* “I think President Obama will still go down in history as a great and historic president. But a lot of his accomplishments are going to be limited by what happened (last) Tuesday.”–David Litt, former Obama speechwriter.
* “The landscape ahead looks grim to me. While the business model for mainstream journalism is in crisis, these alt-right websites expand as they monetize false “news” that promotes racism and undermines democracy. Worse, they have the imprimatur of the soon-to-be most powerful person in the world.”–Nicholas Kristof, New York Times.
* “I am not willing to compromise about opening up the market, period, full stop. We are going to have a free market system here in Florida.”–State Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, in the aftermath of the passage of (medical marijuana) Amendment 2.
* “When I saw Hillsborough County vote for Hillary Clinton, when I saw Hillsborough County elect a new Democratic state attorney, when I saw those types of votes, I truly believed that if it was on the ballot we would’ve passed it.”–Hillsborough County Commissioner Les Miller, reflecting on how the transit referendum would have fared had it been on last week’s (72 percent turnout) ballot.