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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:

Hugh Hewitt, Fox News contributor: The war against Iran is the right war at the right time.

The United Kingdom and France fell for the Sirens’ song of appeasement in the 1930s, preferring the illusion of negotiations with Hitler. President Trump was never going to be seduced by the foreign policy blob with their acronyms and absurd logic that depended on the word of a regime known best for terrorism and lying for 47 years.

This is an argument the country should and will have. It is one that is long overdue.

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Midterm elections are still a gloomy picture for GOP.

The [Sen. Bill] Cassidy defeat is on top of others, like the successful Trump-encouraged primary challenges of several Indiana Republican state lawmakers who crossed Trump on redistricting. Trump's obvious power in such matters has made many lawmakers scared of clashing with him, whatever they might feel about redistricting.

So now, Trump's authority over the Republican Party has never been higher. But now, with 5 1/2 months until midterms, he's not doing nearly as well with the electorate as a whole.

Liz Peek, Fox News contributor: President Trump’s China trip sent an important message liberal media missed.

For the past two decades, the liberal press has consistently overestimated China’s potential, ignoring the limitations of top-down centralized economic management. Many predicted that China would become the world’s number one economy by now; it hasn’t happened. The U.S., driven by creative freedom, universal opportunity and a system that rewards success, has outgrown and outinnovated every country on earth.

President Trump’s Beijing trip reinforced that truth. It is a message the liberal media may have missed. My guess: the Chinese people read it right.

Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the CEO of Project H.O.O.D.: Mamdani wants New Yorkers to hate success. That should scare every last one of us.

As a pastor, I do not believe wealth is evil. I believe the love of money is evil. Mamdani loves money for his government, and his ambition here is to move money out of Griffin’s pocket and into the hands of the state. If this is not state-sanctioned robbery of a private citizen, I do not know what is. All I know is that ordinary people do not benefit from it. The only winner is an overgrown government bureaucracy that needs more and more of our tax dollars to sustain far too many of its failures.

Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org: Networks spin Trump’s Xi meeting as weakness despite strategic gain.

Because the tone between the two leaders was positive, the end result was less negative than the typical week on the broadcast networks. But if Trump’s conservative backers started complaining about being too accommodating to communists, they might predictably pounce on a 'MAGA split' and 'more negative news for Trump.'