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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:

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Gushing Over Gavin.

For all its love of Newsom, the Vogue piece [by Maya Singer] ends on an oddly ambiguous note. It mentions that in his book Newsom discusses loving a 1980s TV show called 'Remington Steele.' 'Starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist, the show was about a female detective who, struggling to be taken seriously, hires a suave con man as her front,' Singer writes. Brosnan, playing Remington Steele, 'was always impeccably turned out,' Singer continues. 'Newsom began emulating him, coiffing his hair, wearing a suit to school.' In the book, Newsom writes that some of his schoolmates started calling him 'El Presidente,' whereupon Singer concluded that, 'It also struck me, reading — Gavin Newsom is still that guy.'

Amy Curtis, purveyor of epic Twitter rants and awesome Townhall content: Tom Homan provided an update on Minneapolis. Here's what he said.

'Doxxing law enforcement to threaten them and their families,' Homan said, 'is unacceptable.'

He also addressed the roadblocks. 'You're not going to stop ICE. You're not going to stop Border Patrol. The only thing you're doing is irritating your community,' Homan said. He said the Chief of Police has promised swift action on those illegal roadblocks.

Homan said the interference with federal law enforcement must stop.

Terence P. Jeffrey, editor-in-chief of CNSNews: Trump is securing the border — and America.

By enforcing the immigration laws against those who are violating them in this country, the Trump administration has deterred illegal border crossings. According to DHS, the Border Patrol encountered a daily average of 5,110 individuals at the southwest border during the Biden administration, while daily encounters averaged only 251 in the first year of Trump's second term.

This country must never go back to former President Joe Biden's open borders.

Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and CEO of Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny), the church's local mission: As Minneapolis fractures, Mobile shows how work, law and God still unite.

In Mobile, pastors, parents and workers have welcomed me not as an outsider with all the answers, but as a brother in Christ seeking common ground. This stands in stark relief to the ideological battles paralyzing places like Minneapolis, where federal overreach meets radical resistance and commonsense solutions are lost in the noise.

The South's quiet resurgence proves what coastal elites mock as 'backward' is actually forward-thinking: lower taxes and living costs that let families thrive, stronger marriages and churches that anchor moral life, and a belief in personal ownership over government dependency.