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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:

Kurt Schlichter, political commentator and author: Forget the nonsense – Republicans are not facing electoral death in 2026.

In Georgia, we have a GOP free-for-all to go against Jon Ossoff. This is one of the Republican turnover opportunities, so we need to take this naturally GOP seat back from the Dems. But there is drama. Brian Kemp is promoting some guy who’s a college football coach in some other state. Why? That guy is going nowhere. We need to get serious—Representative Mike Collins, whom I had a chance to interview the other day on The Hugh Hewitt Show, seems like a smart guy. And, on the plus side, Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t get in the race after Trump told her to butt out, something she is certain to blame on the Jews and their mind-control lasers.

Derek Hunter, Washington, DC, based writer, radio host and political strategist: Just accept that New York City is lost.

It’s hard to feel sorry for people who willingly follow a madman, so we should let them. Do not help them when it goes sideways, do not fight against it when he implements his agenda and it hurts the people who put him in power; just sit back and watch while reminding every refugee fleeing the city of what they are fleeing and why, so they don’t vote for it again.

It will be a very expensive and painful lesson learned by people who should have learned of the failures of socialism/communism/fascism in school, but instead were preached those poisons as virtues and weren’t smart enough to see through it. You can’t save people from themselves and you shouldn’t even try.

Dave Marcus, columnist for Fox News Digital: Trump's ballroom is no vanity project, it's about American grandeur.

Though this expansion of the White House would be well worth taxpayer money, Trump has found a way to build it with private donations, as well as his own funds. Still the left is throwing a fit. Why? …

What Democrats and socialists are really objecting to here is not that Trump’s ballroom celebrates himself, it's that his ballroom unabashedly celebrates America. …

Americans want and deserve a big, beautiful ballroom for their nation’s executive mansion, and there has never been a president more capable of delivering it than our real estate mogul-in-chief.

Liberals can stamp their feet in anger all they want. But the ballroom is going to be built, and eventually, most of them will come to appreciate it.

Rachel Wolf, breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business: Vance calls Psaki comments about wife Usha 'disgraceful'.

'I think the little Manchurian candidate, JD Vance, wants to be president more than anything else,' [former White House press secretary Jen] Psaki said. 'I always wonder what's going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. We'll come over here. We'll save you.'

Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, accused Psaki of 'transferring her own personal issues onto others' and said she 'has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things.'

Fox News contributor Joe Concha also chimed in, saying that Psaki is, 'Not a good person. At all.'