* “Some leaders in Asia, Africa and even Europe are beginning to wonder whether China’s authoritarian technocracy is a better governance model for the 21st century than America’s chaotic democratic system.”–Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street Journal.
* “Negotiating with North Korea is always difficult, but President Trump made it immeasurably harder with his euphoric tweets about how the North is no longer a nuclear threat.”–Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs during the Obama Administration.
* “Students on scholarships, not cartel hitmen.”–Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in promising $7.5 billion for youth job training and aid to the elderly.
* “The largest trade war in economic history to date.”–How the Chinese Commerce Ministry has characterized the Trump Administration’s approach to tariffs and duties on Chinese goods.
* “The key is translating these public demonstrations and marches into electoral activism and then government activism.”–Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio.
* “Democrats typically bombard voters with laundry lists of issues, facts, figures and policy positions, while Republicans offer them emotionally compelling appeals, whether to their values, principles or prejudices.”–Drew Westen, professor of psychology at Emory University and author of “The Political Brain.”
* “The media, normally the last check on a president with total control of government, has lost the trust of most Republicans and many Democrats, after two years of Trump pummeling.”–Mike Allen, Axios.
* “Free expression doesn’t really mean much if people don’t feel safe.”–Twitter’s Vice President for Trust and Safety Del Harvey.
* “Legally, what was, toward the beginning of the 20th century, a shield for radicals, artists and activists, socialists and pacifists, the excluded and the dispossessed, has become a sword for authoritarians, racists and misogynists, Nazis and Klansmen, pornographers and corporations buying elections.”–Catherine A. MacKinnon, University of Michigan law professor, on the legal evolution of the First Amendment.
* “The difference (from an overturned Roe v. Wade) isn’t between abortion and no abortion. It’s between a safe procedure and a dangerous one.”–Jennifer Wright, New York Post.
* “One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.”–Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla.
* “I have heard directly from Florida companies who are worried that the Administration’s proposal regarding tariffs is not fair and consistent between countries and this is an issue I will continue discussing with the Administration to ensure Florida companies are treated fairly.”–Gov. Rick Scott.
* “When he votes against the party, it was never to support a final compromise measure for the greater good. Ron DeSantis breaks to go more hard-line.”–Former Florida Republican Congressman David Jolly.
* “Anyone who says Andrew’s (Gillum) campaign is only focusing on getting the black vote out is sadly mistaken. If you look at his supporters, the people who are behind them, a lot of them don’t look like me.”–Rep. Shevrin Jones, D-West Park, who is African-American.
* “It has been far too long that we have had men weighing in on women’s unique health care issues. It’s time we have a woman in the room, a voice for women, and as the only woman in the race, I’m the only one who can speak to this.”–Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gwen Graham.
* “The blue wave is not coming. The blue wave came.”–Republican political consultant Jesse Manzano-Plaza, after Little Havana voters elected Eileen Higgins, a non-Hispanic female Democrat (“La Gringa”), to the Miami-Dade County Commission.