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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:

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Republicans hang on.

In the RealClearPolitics average, the Democratic Party's favorability rating is just 36.5%, while its unfavorability rating is 56.1%. For Republicans, the numbers are 38.6% favorable and 55.3% unfavorable — not much better than Democrats, but better. So even if Republicans are headed for a loss, the public's greater dislike of Democrats could limit the margin.

Joe Abraham, the father of Katie Abraham, who was killed in a drunken-driving accident by an illegal alien: If citizens lose faith in elections, accountability dies.

Families like mine are told that our losses are unfortunate but unavoidable. The human cost is contextualized, explained away, or dismissed as collateral damage.

Democracy cannot function that way. Public officials should welcome scrutiny, not resent it. They should demonstrate the integrity of our systems rather than demand blind faith in them.

Because in a republic, citizens are not accountable to politicians. Politicians are accountable to citizens.

Derek Hunter, Washington, DC, based writer, radio host and political strategist: How democrats sell themselves to the public.

Then we have Ro Khanna. Ro is the loudest, whiniest voice in Congress about Elon Musk and the wealth he’s created. In fact, with the exception of left-wing billionaires who fund people like Ro, Khanna could be counted on to hate pretty much everyone with money…except himself.

Khanna has an estimated net worth north of $200 million, and spends a lot of his time whining about rich people having “too much wealth.” Those rich people always have more wealth than he does – like when Bernie Sanders used to rant against “millionaires and billionaires” before he became a multi-millionaire, then he only ranted about billionaires.

Matt Vespa, Managing Editor at Townhall. com: This MS NOW Contributor Had the Most Laughable Take on Algae in the Reflecting Pool.

Contributor Cornell Belcher said that the fact that kids can't splash in the pool shows that America is heading toward authoritarianism or something like that. Also, there aren't any kids splashing in that pool, sir, unless you're willing to risk contracting brain-eating amoebas in the past. It's a national monument. Can we please return to planet Earth?

Pastor Corey Brooks, known as the 'Rooftop Pastor,' founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago: Divine purpose helped bring Chicago’s most-dangerous block back to life.

Government can build buildings. It can craft policies. But just look around at the results. It took the hope and agency away from the people. Those who could, fled. The government cannot restore the human heart. It is God and faith that does that deep work of reminding us that we are not accidents of circumstance but image-bearers with divine purpose.