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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: The Clintons are so over.

Here is the thing about a congressional subpoena. You can show up and testify. You can show up, cite your constitutional rights and not testify. You can do a little of both. But you can't just not show up. …

Now the lesson of the episode is sinking in. Why would so many Democrats — half of the Democrats on the committee — vote against these Democratic legends? Because they are more than ready to move on from Bill and Hillary Clinton.

'At this point, they bring nothing but baggage,' an anonymous Democratic lobbyist told Politico. Given the party's many problems today, the lobbyist said, the Clintons' 'continued presence is a barrier to the party's renewal.'

Stephen Moore, Fox News contributor and author: Dow 50,000: A supply-side miracle.

Supply-siders like Steve Forbes, Arthur Laffer, and Larry Kudlow should take a bow. They were right about lowering tax rates and inflation igniting growth and prosperity. The income redistributionists were wrong that the rich would pay much less taxes. They pay more. The top 1 percent now pay roughly 40 percent of the income tax.

That's the good news. The bad news is that so many Democrats haven't learned the lesson that lower tax rates create more prosperity. By the way, the evidence also shows that even with these lower tax rates, the richest 1 percent pay a higher share of the tax burden than ever before.

Matt Vespa, Managing Editor at Townhall. com: Bill Maher reveals why he got the COVID vaccine…and he's rather annoyed about it.

Bill Maher has admitted something we should’ve guessed, given that he’s a California resident: he was forced to take the COVID vaccine or wouldn’t be able to do his show. The HBO host said he’s not antivaccine but didn’t feel he needed this one. Yet he needed to get jabbed to keep living.

“I had to conform… didn’t want the vaccine at all… But I had to have it. I couldn’t have continued my life. They wouldn’t have let me do the show, and I had to do it here. I did it in this room,” Maher said.

Joe Abraham, the father of Katie Abraham, who was killed in a drunken-driving accident by an illegal alien: Gov Pritzker ignored my letter — after his sanctuary policies killed my daughter.

Katie was more than a statistic or a talking point. She was vibrant, kind, creative and deeply loved. She had dreams and plans that were stolen — not only by one man’s recklessness, but by a political system that valued ideology over human life.

Gov. Pritzker has never acknowledged Katie’s life or her death. No call. No letter. No response. Silence.

Silence is not neutrality. Silence is a choice.

For families like mine, that choice speaks volumes.