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A compilation of quotations on a variety of issues by national, state and regional writers, well-known personalities, just plain everyday people and from various publications collected by the editors of THE ADVANCE.

Quotes for our Times:

Matt Vespa, Senior Editor at Townhall. com: Bill Maher again sets the woke aflame in latest commentary.

Maher seems resigned that there’s more than a good chance that his party is going to blow the next election because of this leftwing nonsense: a cabal of self-important, overeducated, predominantly white, and wealthy college kids who scream ‘black lives matter,’ but have done next to nothing to help that community except rob them of their voice within the Democratic Party structures.

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Joe Biden's decline: The inside story and the outside story.

The inside story is the effort by the White House staff, plus its Democratic allies, plus its supporters in the press, to conceal Biden's problem. The outside story is the many public appearances — moments of Biden appearing confused, lost or frozen — during which millions of Americans could see for themselves that the president had a serious problem.

Another way to put it would be to say that the inside story was the effort to deny that the outside story existed.

David Marcus, columnist for Fox News Digital: The Americans I talk to will sacrifice for real change.

It may be remarkable that despite the entirety of the liberal media and even a decent chunk of the conservative media railing against tariffs, Trump’s voters still trust him on the issue. But it should not come as a surprise.

For the first time in decades, … the working man and woman feel they have a president who is on their side, who will put their needs before those of the stock market and the intelligentsia.

Do these working Americans know that Trump’s policies might fail? Sure, they aren’t stupid. They get the risk. But they didn’t vote to spruce up the status quo, they voted to destroy it, and that is why some economic discomfort will not scare them away from Donald Trump.

Lee Hartley Carter, president of Maslansky + Partners, a language strategist, researcher and author: The secret sauce of Trump's success that continues to mystify his most ardent critics.

Ultimately, how you interpret Trump’s actions reveals more about you than about him. If you see him as a menace, every statement becomes a threat. If you see him as a visionary, every statement signals bold change. If you see him as a negotiator, the unpredictability makes perfect sense.

You don’t have to like Trump to understand him. But ignoring the mechanics of how he shapes public discourse is missing the most crucial part of the story.

He’s not just running for office. He’s running the conversation. And in essence, Trump needs to keep doing what he does best—disrupt, distract, and dominate. The rest is just noise.