* “The role of France is to talk to everyone.”–French President Emmanuel Macron.
* “Russia can do to us only what we allow it to do. Putin is exploiting fissures and tensions that already existed, not creating them. If Americans decide that our country is better than Putin’s vision of it, we can make it so.”–Fred Hiatt, Washington Post.
* “I have an objective that Mitch McConnell will not be majority leader, and I believe will be done before this time next year.”–Stephen Bannon.
* “It’s not a question of left vs. center–it’s forward vs. backward.”–Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s perspective on the Democratic Party divide over ideological purity.
* “It’s almost going to take a historic wave to overcome the gerrymandered map in a handful of states. … (But) the House of Representatives is certainly in play.”–Eric Holder, former attorney general during the Obama administration.
* “If we don’t convey the right tone, we might energize a small percent of our base, but we still need to have independents. … You don’t want to turn those voters off.”–Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, advising the GOP to moderate its tone for the 2018 elections.
* “At the end of the day, ‘America First’ may devolve into the U.S. being home alone.”–Tang Siew Mun, head of Asean studies center at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore.
* “Under my proposal, the federal government will stop micromanaging the internet.”–FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai, in indicating his plan to scrap rules around open internet access.
* “It’s an intense, painful memory, but the generation of my parents has died. … I think there is a bit of Cuban fatigue now in the Cuban-American community.”–Andy Gomez, interim director of the University of Miami Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, on the anniversary of last year’s death of Fidel Castro.
* “While it’s amazing to be leading the polls for governor without being a candidate, I can’t muster the enthusiasm to run for the nomination.”–John Morgan.
* “Sea-level rise has become a mobilizing factor for a lot of voters.”–Sean Foreman, political scientist at Barry University in Miami Shores.
* “Put simply, we need a federal investment to sustain our industry.”–Michael Sparks, executive vice president and CEO of Florida Citrus Mutual.
* “If we do economic development really well, hopefully, we’ll also do poverty eradication really well.”–St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman.