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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:

Tim Graham, executive editor of News-Busters and director of media analysis for the Media Research Center: Ali Velshi's 'deep unease' over America at 250.

Our 'so-called democracy.' This is how leftists talk when their party is out of power. The Voting Rights Act has been 'gutted,' [MS NOW host Ali] Velshi proclaimed, causing redistricting with 'the explicit effect of taking political power away from black Americans.' This complaint relies on the argument that blacks only have voting rights if they can vote other blacks into power — and not just any blacks, but black Democrats.

These lecturers are never pressed about whether black Republicans count as blacks — because the Congressional Black Caucus refuses to accept them. They kvetch about America being profoundly racist but aren't forced to admit that many black members of Congress are elected in white-majority (or white-plurality) districts or states.

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: The democratic mess in Maine.

And that leads to the final concern — that if the Nazi tattoo wasn't the end of it, and if the Reddit posts weren't the end of it, why should anyone think the sexting will be the end of embarrassing revelations about Graham Platner? It's not an exaggeration to say that nearly everyone expects there will be something else.

Liz Peek, Fox News contributor: Democrats face a socialist reckoning they are too scared to stop, Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee is at war with itself, wrangling over, among other things, an incomplete and sloppy 'autopsy' about how they lost in 2024. They don’t need an autopsy, they just need to listen to the few sane voices in their party which have decried Democrats’ support of biological men competing in women’s sports, defunding the police, open borders and other unpopular issues.

In addition, at some point, they will have to freeze out the radical extremists who are hijacking their party and actively working against the best interests of the United States. The voters will not stand for it.

Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the CEO of Project H.O.O.D.: Walgreens didn’t abandon Chicago’s South Side. We let crime drive them out.

What really bothers me is the people talking about everything except the real issue. We had Ald. William Hall stand in front of cameras and say Walgreens should be charged with 'first-degree corporate abandonment.' He even called it 'pharmaceutical genocide' and said, 'It should be a crime, the way they’re treating our elders … it should be a crime, the way they’re treating our families.'

Yet nobody wants to say that part out loud. It’s easier to attack a corporation than to confront your own community. It’s easier to accuse Walgreens of 'abandoning' the South Side than to admit that we helped drive them out by tolerating theft and violence. It’s easier to rail against 'corporate greed' than to look a young man in the eye and say, 'You are wrong. You hurt your own grandmother when you stole from that store.'