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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, Senior Columnist at Townhall: The midterm campaign will be 'America Is Awesome vs. America Is Awful'.

For the next nine months, including through the Olympics, the World Cup, and America’s 250th birthday bash – the Democrats are just going to hate that flag-fest so much – Donald Trump is going to be America’s number one cheerleader. You won’t get tired of all the winning, on the economy, on public order, on international villains getting gacked. Things are getting better, but while Americans are not fully sold on that yet, there’s no better salesman than Donald Trump.

And against him? The sad, bitter, angry, clown car that is the Democrat Party. As Trump puts awesome win after win up on the scoreboard, the Debbie Downers will be arguing, “No, things are awful, America sucks, and you’re actually miserable, plus something- something Epstein!”

My money is on awesome over awful in November.

Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D, former Lt. Governor of New York State and author: Democrats lie and slander U.S. to stop Commander in Chief.

Yet Murphy, who has been in Congress since 2007 and witnessed firsthand presidents from both parties calling the shots on military interventions, raged this week that 'it's clear as day' the president is violating the Constitution.

Wrong.

What's 'clear as day' is that partisan critics would rather resort to lies and demean the United States on the world stage than give Trump credit for ridding the world of a nuclear threat and leading fomenter of murderous terrorism.

Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and political commentator: Texas might be the key to saving Trump's second term agenda.

Texans shouldn't bench a long-time winner for an injured and injury-prone JV player. President Trump can assure that they won’t. The president played it smart by letting Texas Republicans pick their leader in the clubhouse. Now is the time for President Trump to seal his party’s majority in the Senate in 2027 and 2028 with a ringing endorsement of Senator John Cornyn.

Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the CEO of Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny), the church's local mission: Stop trusting political parties to save urban America. It's time for us to rise and rebuild.

I’ve come to believe that what Urban America needs most are American principles. Those principles do not belong to any political party.

What I’m talking about here, ultimately, is a mind reset. We’ve been told for decades that America is a horrible and racist country, where police lurk behind every corner waiting to shoot us dead. That’s a lie. People in Urban America kill each other at far greater rates than any outsider, and yet no one points to that fact. I wonder why.