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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:

Brooke L. Rollins, 33rd secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture: Farm security is national security.

This action plan [USDA’s National Farm Security Action Plan] moves USDA to work with governors, state legislators, cabinet agencies, Congress and the National Security Council to fully integrate agriculture into America’s national-security planning.

Now, more than ever, our agricultural policy must protect American farms from the security threats attached to an increasingly globalized economy. Whether you're a farmer in Iowa, a grocer in Georgia, or a parent in Pennsylvania, your well-being depends on the strength and security of our food and agriculture system. As the recent episode at the University of Michigan demonstrates, American agriculture is a matter of national security.

Rabbi Derek Gormin, Managing Director of NCSY [National Conference of Synagogue Youth] and the Jewish Student Union: This isn’t just about the Jews. It never was.

Above all, understand this: antisemitism is not a Jewish problem. It is a human problem. Wherever Jew-hatred was allowed to grow, so too grows the targeting of all other minorities. Societies that target Jews first never stop there.

We Jews will not disappear nor cower. We will not apologize for existing. But we ask, simply, for your hand to stand together. Will you stand with us? Not just because we are your neighbors, colleagues, classmates and friends. But because all our children deserve a world where hatred is called out, justice is pursued and no one has to hide who they are.

Matt Vespa, Senior Editor at Townhall. com: Fox News liberal claims we didn't vote for mass deportations or something.

Fox News liberal Jessica Tarlov claims that ICE raids and mass deportations aren’t what people voted for. Let me fix this: it’s not what liberal voters wanted, but you lost the 2024 election. …

ABC News, CBS News, The New York Times, and Marquette, all liberal polling institutions, polled on this subject, and the findings dropped during Independence Day week. To the average tune of 58 percent, American voters support mass deportations. The Left will try to ignore, but you can’t spin the data like this.

… Immigrant citizens have swung to the GOP by at least 40 points on immigration issues, liberals. You’re not fooling anybody.

The invasion ends now. Alligator Alcatraz is open. We want 5,000 more built.

Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org: Media elites put their profession over patriotism.

America is a free country, and journalists are free to denigrate it. Journalists are free to assert that their precious profession places them above putrid pledges of allegiance. But they shouldn’t be mystified when Americans decide they don’t trust networks that sound suspicious of the national unity that patriotism can bring.