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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: Hakeem Jeffries' shutdown narrative got bodied by CNN last night.

The Republicans wanted a seven-week continuing resolution that funded the government at Biden-era levels, so Congress could get the rest of its appropriations bills done and address the expiring Obamacare subsidies. Democrats rejected it, opting to shut down the government over $1.5 trillion for illegal alien health care benefits and NPR funding.

Dmitri Bolt, graduate from American University's School of Public Affairs and an intern with the Young America's Foundation's National Journalism Center: New York City has fallen, socialist Mamdani elected mayor.

What this moment makes clear is that Republicans must seriously re-engage in the debate between free markets and socialism, more vigorously than ever before. That means advancing economic plans that demonstrate the power, effectiveness, and fairness of the free market, not just more tax cuts. Republicans have too often lost the rhetorical battle over economic systems. For too long, capitalism has been equated with maintaining the status quo; it must now stand for something greater amid the growing discontent in America’s cities. Let’s restore the honor and dignity of work, revive the American work ethic, and reduce our dependence on government welfare programs and on government itself to solve our problems.

Liz Peek, Fox News contributor: Democrats cheer Mamdani's win — they'll be crying soon enough.

Here’s what must happen: all those business owners and managers whose fortunes depend on the successful growth of New York City must rally to elect Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik governor of New York next year and back moderate Democrats on the City Council. A Republican governor can rein in Mamdani’s effort to raise income taxes; property taxes are under the control of the City Council, which is currently dominated by progressives.

Dave Marcus, columnist for Fox News Digital: Now is the time to nuke the filibuster.

Donald Trump is the president of the United States, for the second time, largely because he promised to break things, to bust up the deep state’s hegemonic control over government. And make no mistake, when Congress refuses to act, it is the bureaucracy that truly holds power.

There is an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which a Bond villain is threatening to launch a bomb, and a member of the United Nations wants to give in to him saying, 'we can’t afford to take that chance,' to which another replies, 'You always say that. I want to take a chance.'

That may be the point that Americans are at with our unpopular, dysfunctional and filibuster- blocked federal legislature. They may be willing to take this chance, even if it is a nuclear one.

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Dick Cheney's complicated legacy.

Cheney's time in office also changed Republican politics. It is impossible to imagine the 2016 GOP primary race going the way it did absent the legacy of the Bush-Cheney administration. The Bush-Cheney team was in the field in 2016 in the person of Jeb Bush. Candidate Donald Trump took great delight in bashing Jeb, and he was remarkably effective at it.