* “(Putin’s) a petromonarch, another in a line of unsavory characters whom liberal democracies keep doing business with because they’ve got something we can’t live without.”–Farhad Monjoo, NYT.
* “Why do they need to hit civilians with missiles? Why this cruelty? Sometimes, you think whether they are human at all. Hatred has to lose.”–Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
* “Moscow can no more lose the war with Ukraine than Washington could lose a war to Mexico.”–Douglas Macgregor, The American Conservative.
* “Even absent open war, Russia will remain a generational enemy to peace in Europe and a generational threat to American interests—making policies that diminish Russian wealth and power a justified form of self-defense, both for Europe’s eastern borders and for the wider Pax Americana.”–Ross Douthat, NYT.
* “The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds.”–John F. Kennedy.
* “Let’s be honest. This is a political show trial.”—How House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy referenced the Jan. 6 committee.
* “I would rather have it said ‘He lived usefully’ than ‘He died rich.’”–Benjamin Franklin.
* “We used to have thought leaders; now we have influencers.”–Maureen Dowd, NYT.
* “Unity is not the problem. … What Americans have lost—to be painfully accurate, what Republicans have trashed in pursuit of power—is the willingness and ability to share a common national identity.”--Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald.
* “Florida’s Sen. Rick Scott … is out with a plan that explicitly calls for raising taxes on 57 percent of American households. Could Democrats make something of that? And if not, what are they doing in politics?”–Mona Charen, Creators Syndicate.
* “Nearly 800,000 Floridians have no health insurance because the premiums are too high. Adults without children (for example) don’t qualify for Medicaid, no matter how little they make.”–Dr. Brent Schillinger, vice chairman of the Florida Policy Institute.
* “Watching Tampa emerge as one of the nation’s hottest tech cities, we felt it made sense for us to plant our flag here and become an active part of this burgeoning community.”–Shawn Simmons, executive vice president of Avanade, a tech firm that is building its first U.S. engineering hub in Tampa.
* “I’m highly optimistic.”–Rays principal owner Stuart Sternberg, on the team working out a deal for a new stadium—one with a roof—in the Tampa Bay market.
* “Mass transit in Tampa is more than two people in an SUV. We have got to change the mindset.”–Mayor Jane Castor.
* “It is not going to sit on a shelf, I will tell you that.”–Hillsborough County Commissioner Kimberly Overman, in reference to a report from MGT Consulting Group that advocated the county invest more in public transportation, create an office of equity and access and establish apprenticeship programs in emergent and green technologies.