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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, Managing Editor at Townhall. com: You're going to laugh at this Reuters piece about Operation Epic Fury.

Guys, we’re losing the war in Iran. That’s what Reuters reported, based on those ephemeral, anonymous deep state sources that are always wrong. After 5,500 strikes, the decimation of their air force, the total obliteration of their navy, and the annihilation of their core political and military leadership, Tehran survives, right? …

It’s just funny how the media operates with Trump. We’re winning a war, and they’re manufacturing Tehran-like propaganda saying otherwise. It must be a day that ends in “y.”

David Marcus, columnist for Fox News Digital: Sen. Thune has no idea how mad the GOP base is at him.

Senate majority leader's comments come as 60% of Texas Republicans voted against John Cornyn in primary over Save America Act inaction. …

If nothing else, Thune needs to look GOP voters in the eye and say, directly, 'We hear you. We know you are angry. We see it in the primary results and we will listen to what you want and try to do better.'

Right now, Thune and Senate Republicans are like the inattentive husband who doesn’t know the divorce papers have already been filed. It may not be too late to work it out with voters, but it's getting pretty close.

Hugh Hewitt is a Fox News contributor and political commentator: President Trump and the US are waging a righteous battle — and winning.

The collapse of moral clarity among American elites on the left is complete, and it has even made inroads on the fringes of the right. The Republican Party should boldly proclaim that, even after 250 years, our country still knows right from wrong and will defend the right.

President Trump is leading a winning campaign to rid the world of as malign an actor as there is. The region and the world will be so much better off if the president perseveres. Pray he does, because it is obvious that many who should be doing so lack the wisdom and/or the courage to do so.

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: From Nashville to Chicago's South Side, fatherlessness haunts America.

On the South Side of Chicago, far too many kids grow up without dads to guide them and without strong models of manhood rooted in responsibility and faith. The streets fill the void with gangs, revenge and music that glorifies all the wrong things in life — lyrics that I can’t even print here.

I know the consequences of fatherless ness all too well, and that’s why I’ve been walking across America to raise funds for a community center designed to promote family values: education, jobs, courtship, marriage, child-rearing and responsible finances.