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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: Kristen Welker insults President Trump with 'no evidence' guff.

Partisan journalists like Welker treat every assertion of Biden weaponizing the justice system as part of 'The Big Lie,' melting into the rhetorical magma with 2020 election denial and praise for Jan. 6 rioters. They reserve the accusations of 'no evidence' or 'without evidence' almost exclusively for Republicans. They didn't tell Harris there was 'no evidence' the border was secure. That would apparently be rude.

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Trump builds the wall.

But most importantly, Trump's striking progress on the wall is attracting less opposition because of Biden's catastrophic record. Biden showed the nation the danger of a reckless open borders policy. Trump fixed it, but a future president can always pick up where Biden left off. A wall cannot prevent that entirely — but can make it more difficult. So in a very real and possibly lasting way, Trump is leaving the border far more secure than he found it.

Joe Abraham, the father of Katie Abraham, who was killed in a drunken-driving accident by an illegal alien: When leadership loses its moral compass.

Right now, too much of the political class operates with a different hierarchy of priorities. Image comes first. Ideology comes second. Accountability arrives last, if at all.

Families like mine are left living with the consequences.

Katie’s death did not simply expose policy disagreements. It exposed a deeper cultural problem: the replacement of moral seriousness with political performance. When leaders become more devoted to narratives than truth, and more concerned with appearances than outcomes, public trust inevitably erodes.

And innocent people too often pay the price for that erosion.

Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the CEO of Project H.O.O.D.: My walk across America is over, but my mission for South Side kids is not.

Through all those months, the blisters on my feet reminded me of the cost. But the conversations healed something far deeper. I kept thinking: We are not nearly as divided as they want us to believe. The elites and the politicians earn their bread and butter by manufacturing dissent and conflict among us. But out on those roads, I found something different. I found an America that is still working.

Jonathan Turley, Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University: California proves voters get the government they tolerate.

The odds still heavily favor the continuation of California as a one-party state. Poor services, rising crime, rampant homelessness, hundreds of billions in waste and other failures are treated as virtually inevitable. The result is an electorate that only a politician would love: passive voters who expect little from their government and receive even less.