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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:

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

Thomas Sowell Matt Vespa, Senior Editor at Townhall. com: The Dems' Epstein files narrative is already imploding.

President Trump had nothing to hide, and he also knows that his team can easily swat away any attacks lobbed by Democrats over the Epstein Files. They’ve done so before. With Congress pushing through a bill releasing all the files yesterday, some on the Hill are already off to the races and have smashed into a wall, too. It’s imploding, not least because Democrats are named.

It’s as if Democrats didn’t think this vote would ever come; therefore, they had a cash cow regarding fundraising. That’s gone now. The dog has bitten the car, and they don’t know what to do. If it’s not that, they’re accusing the wrong people of being too cozy with the dead and disgraced New York financier.

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Jeffrey Epstein's resentment toward Donald Trump.

So what to make of it? First, even though he was a friend of Epstein's for several years up to around 2004, there is still no evidence linking Donald Trump to any wrongdoing. And second, Trump is nevertheless everywhere in the Epstein files because Jeffrey Epstein was out of his mind with resentment toward a former friend who not only succeeded in business but became president of the United States, even as Epstein raced toward ruin.

Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D, former Lt. Governor of New York State and author of Beating Obamacare: The home affordability crisis – not fake news.

New York voters, you got played. Two weeks ago, Zohran Mamdani followed up his electoral win by asking working- class voters to contribute to his transition team. At the time, he said, 'I told supporters across this city to stop donating, and today I am asking them to start once again because of the fact that a transition— or a transition that can meet the moment of preparing for January 1st—is one that will require staff, it will require research and infrastructure.'

Now he's back to ask for another $4M from supporters. …

His parents' net worth is somewhere around $10 million, which seems low considering they own a private compound in Uganda.

Why don't they write a check? Because socialists never spend their own money. They only take and spend yours.