* “Ideology is not defeated with guns. It is defeated with better ideas.”–President Barack Obama at the UN.
* “Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster.”–Russian President Vladimir Putin at the UN.
* “As a consequence of these brilliant moves, their economy is contracting 4 percent this year. They’re isolated in the world community.”–President Barack Obama, in response to those saying he has been outsmarted by Vladimir Putin.
* “Each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. It does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America.”–President Barack Obama.
* “All his life, Trump has had a deep need to be perceived as a ‘winner.’ … That’s why, ultimately, I don’t think he’ll ever put himself at the mercy of actual voters in a primary. To do so is to risk losing. And everyone will know it. He’ll be out by Iowa. You read it here first.”–Joe Nocera, New York Times.
* “There is no real estate without government. Donald Trump and his dad built their fortunes on government.”–Julia Vitullo-Martin, senior fellow at the New York-based Regional Plan Association.
* “Today was a win for the Washington cartel, and another setback for the American people.”–Sen. Ted Cruz, on the stopgap spending bill that averts a federal government shutdown.
* “The latest smear campaign is based on efforts by our opponents to entrap our doctors and clinicians into breaking the law–and once again our opponents failed.”–Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, in testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
* “Stylistically she (Carly Fiorina) is a renegade outsider, but substantively she’s completely establishmentarian. … When she ran Hewlett-Packard, the core critique against her was that she was really good at marketing but not good at tech or operations.”–David Brooks, New York Times.
* “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”–House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
* “The cable TV chatter is obsessed with early polling and that has the lowest correlation of nominating success of almost any indicator you can find. This campaign is built for a long nominating process. Few others are.”–Bush senior campaign strategist David Kochel.
* “If Jeb doesn’t get an early win, all the money in the world isn’t going to change the direction of the race.”–Democratic strategist Steve Schale.
* “We will either renegotiate it or we will break it.”–Donald Trump, on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
* “The system was created for the work force we needed 100 years ago.”–Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ widow, who is starting a $50 million project to rethink high school.
* “Looking forward, we certainly need to take a look at whether (a) winner-take-all (primary) makes sense for Florida.”–Pinellas County GOP chairman Nick DiCeglie.
* “We won’t rule that out.”–Florida CFO Jeff Atwater, on the possibility that he may run for Marco Rubio’s senate seat in 2016.
* “They’re not exactly drinking buddies.”–GOP strategist J.M.”Mac” Stipanovich, on the relationship between Gov. Rick Scott and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.
* “Let’s be honest, the collapse of the testing system this spring proved that Florida’s accountability system is a house of cards.”–Florida Education Association.
* “For many people, painkillers have been a gateway into heroin. … Heroin availability in Florida is particularly high and especially cheap.”–Khary Rigg, professor of mental health law and policy at USF.
* “Following phase one, if things are going well, we see an opportunity for up to another billion dollars of development.”–Jeff Vinik.
* “If a vote was taken today, the votes aren’t there for this thing to pass.”–Hillsborough County Commissioner Al Higginbothan, on the county’s transportation referendum.
* “We’re all looking at things that should have been looked at a long time ago.”–Hillsborough County School District Superintendent Jeff Eakins, on a pattern of overspending that has been eroding the district’s reserves.
* “As we dug into it, we realized that it had a common factor. It was the Howard Frankland Bridge.”–Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward, on the reasoning behind TPD’s coordination with the St. Petersburg Police Department and the Pinellas Sheriff’s Office in pooling resources to catch car-theft suspects.
* “Criminals seems to be really proud of what they do. That’s fine. Keep on snapping selfies.”–Pasco County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Melanie Snow, noting that police are increasingly using social media to find suspects.
* “It used to be just a great place to live, not necessarily a great place to be an NHL hockey player. But I think if you did a poll around the league, Tampa would probably be top-five for sure now. … It’s the whole package.”–Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos.