* “We spend an inordinate amount of time and resources as the United States, but also as partners, trying to not only defeat ISIS and their control of the physical caliphate, but their virtual space that they own. They’re proselytizing. It’s troubling.”–Thomas P. Bossert, President Trump’s Homeland Security and counterterrorism adviser.
* “If it’s what you say, I love it–especially late in the summer.”–The response of Donald Trump Jr. to the promise of assistance from a “Russian government lawyer” with “high level” information on Hillary Clinton.
* “It is clear the Kremlin got the message that Donald Trump welcomed the help of the Russian government in providing dirt on Hillary Clinton.”–California Congressman Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee.
* “It is wrong to let another nation take an active role in a campaign for the U.S. presidency. It is imprudent and also rather unpatriotic. … Was it collusion? It was worse; it was classless.”–Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal.
* “This was a bungled collusion. It undoes the White House story completely.”–Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer.
* “Right now, the 2018 Congressional elections promise to be a de facto referendum on impeachment.”–Ross Douthat, New York Times.
* “I do not consider director Mueller to be on a witch hunt.”–Christopher Wray, nominated to replace James Comey as FBI director.
* “The next time I’m with Putin, I’m going to ask him: ‘Who were you really for?’ Because I can’t believe that he would have been for me.”–President Donald Trump.
* “I am done asking–or caring–what’s wrong with him? Six months in, it’s time we grappled a far more important question. What in the world is wrong with us?”–Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald.
* “Politics is downstream from culture.”–The late Andrew Breitbart, founder of Breitbart News.
* “I will be very angry about it, and a lot of people will be very upset. Mitch (McConnell) has to pull it off.”–Donald Trump, on the revamped Republican health care bill.
* “It’s a unifying strategy to be outraged at the other guy. The hard part is when you get in and have to deliver.”–Adam Brandon, president of the conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks, describing Republicans’ difficulty in passing a health care bill.
* “By now, it’s become clear that an understaffed and inexperienced Trump White House is incapable of knocking heads together and moving the GOP agenda forward.”–Reihan Salam, Slate.
* “Democrats have to move from resistance to offense. Being not-Trump is not nearly enough. We have to put forward our positive vision for the future.”–California hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer, the largest donor to the Democratic Party.
* “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”–Historian David Boorstin.
* “The diesel engine is getting more expensive. We would prefer to talk about the alternatives.”–Volvo Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson, explaining why his company is moving away from fuel-efficient diesel cars to fuel-free electric ones.
* “If we don’t resolve the educational crisis that we’re faced with, and I use that word correctly, then how can we really resolve the criminal justice system?”–Central Florida Urban League CEO Glen Gilzean.
* “What we learned is that the old model did not work, because the lack of a permanent address could create a problem for employment, school enrollment and other issues. The new model is collaborative and has housing partners working together to arrive at new and better solutions.”–Antoinette Hayes-Triplett, CEO of Hillsborough’s Homeless Initiative, on a key factor for the homeless count in the county falling by 15 percent.
* “Steel is our core business. We’ve been at it forever.”–Wade Elliot, vice president of marketing and business development at Port Tampa Bay, which recently approved a 25-year lease with Steelco Florida for a 35-acre site on port property.
* “The numbers over the past few years reflect a more healthy and sustainable real estate market. You see a slow and steady growth in value, rather than the fast run up in values that you saw before the Great Recession.”–Hillsborough Property Appraiser Bob Henriquez, on projections that the total value of taxable property around the Tampa Bay area will grow 8 percent or more this year.
* “It’s realistic to say we’re going to move this.”–Hillsborough County Commissioner Victor Crist, on the status of Tampa’s Confederate Monument.
* “I am not going to indefinitely leave a club in a market without a major-league quality facility.”–Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.