Quoteworthy

  • “Xenophobic and racist discourse breeds hate crimes.”—Martha Barcena, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S.
  • “It worked in Panama, it worked in Nicaragua once … and it will work in Venezuela and Cuba.”—John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, on the imposition of a full economic embargo on Venezuela.
  • “Repression must end. The Cuban people deserve freedoms of press, expression, association and more.”—Mara Tekach, chief of the U.S. Embassy in Havana.
  • “We should say to the Chinese: ‘You now are our economic equal.’ Give them that dignity. And tell them we want to restart these negotiations on the basis of total reciprocity. We should both have the same rules of access to each other’s economies.”—Jim McGregor, chairman of APCO China.
  • “Puerto Rico needs assurance and stability.”—Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez, Puerto Rico’s new governor, the third within six days.
  • “We are not helpless here. But until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening.”—Former President Barack Obama.
  • “Perhaps even more than the morally bankrupt Trump, Mitch McConnel is the worst among us. He sees evil and does nothing but permit it to flourish. He and his profit at the expense of others. He closes his heart to what is right and good about America.”—Ann McFeatters, Tribune Content Agency.
  • “We can’t fix a problem if we refuse to name it: white nationalism. An ideology emboldened by a president who stokes the flames of hatred and coddles white supremacists with messages of support.”—Former Vice President Joe Biden.
  • “We need to call out white nationalism for what it is—domestic terrorism. And we need to call out the president himself for advancing racism and white supremacy.”—Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
  • “(Trump’s) a moral arsonist.”—Frank Bruni, New York Times.
  • “President Trump is serving up to our adversaries an ever more divided and weakened America, one that is animated by suspicion, rived by hatred of the “other” and increasingly incapable of uniting in the face of external threats. … Dictators around the world encounter no opprobrium from our government and are comforted to find a fellow traveler in rhetoric and policies that demean his own people.”—Susan E. Rice, former U.S. ambassador to the UN and former national security adviser to President Barack Obama.
  • “Most of the time, mass shooters aren’t driven by delusions or voices in their head. They are driven by a need to wield their power over another group. They are angry at the perceived injustices that have befallen them at the hands of others. … It’s not an altered perception of reality that drives them; it’s entitlement, insecurity and hatred.”—Amy Barnhorst, Psychology Today.
  • “The white supremacist terrorists and the white supremacist policymakers are bound at the hip.”—Charles M. Blow, New York Times.
  • “We live in a precarious moment in this Trump era, in which a seat on the federal bench demands a prerequisite fealty to an expansive reading of personal gun rights under the Second Amendment.”—Robert Spitzer, chair of the political science department at SUNY Cortland and the author of “The Politics of Gun Control.”
  • “The Mueller report may turn out to be more of a film noir than anything else. The detective successfully uncovers the plot, only to discover that the society around him is too rotten to do anything about it.”—Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare.
  • “Every single person in the Justice Department … knew that (Jeffrey Epstein) was a suicide risk, and that his dark secrets couldn’t be allowed to die with him.”—Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
  • “Bigger is better if you’re going after digital reach.”—Doug Arthur, Huber Research analyst, on the merger of Gannett and Gatehouse Media, America’s two largest newspaper publishers.
  • “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”—The late Nobel Laureate novelist Toni Morrison.
  • “You are too intelligent to believe in God.”—The very first words of Ayn Rand upon meeting William F. Buckley for the first time.
  • “We don’t really see an end to the uncertainty at any time soon.”—Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
  • “The stability of food supply is projected to decrease as the magnitude and frequency of extreme weather events that disrupt food chains increases.”—United Nations report.
  • “We need to listen to scientists on the climate crisis. Not Ted Nugent.”–Congresswoman Kathy Castor, chair of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis.
  • “This is a great opportunity to engage the community and promote the values that make this country strong, prosperous, safe and great!”—Republican Party of Florida email announcing that the party would be holding a voter registration drive at a South Florida gun show.
  • “Where we think the world’s going is … how do you curate the experience when you’re there? To us, that’s kind of what makes a great place.”—Nicholas Harris, CEO of Bromley Cos., the developer of the $500 million, mixed-used Midtown Tampa project.
  • “I think the conference is going to put Tampa on the map as an absolute welcoming place for LGBT business to occur.”—Justin Nelson, president of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, on the impact of Tampa hosting the International Business & Leadership Conference, the largest LGBT business gathering in the world.

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