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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: Illness, death and turmoil change face of GOP senate.

Lawmakers normally exit when they retire or lose reelection. This year, there's more than that going on.

Put it all together, and that is 10 Republicans guaranteed to leave the Senate before any votes are cast in November. If Blackburn wins, it will be 11. That's a very large number from one party, more than any year in recent memory. And with the death of Graham and the departures of McConnell and Cornyn, lawmakers who guided the party for many years will no longer be on Capitol Hill. There's a really big change coming, no matter who wins in November.

Joe Abraham, the father of Katie Abraham, who was killed in a drunken-driving accident by an illegal alien: Who will be held accountable for the border policies of 2021– 2025?

Congress should conduct a comprehensive review of the immigration decisions made between 2021 and 2025. …

If audits were conducted, the public should know the results.

If audits were not conducted, the public deserves to know why.

The architects of these policies made their choices. Their allies defended them. The American people live with the consequences.

And families like mine bear the cost.

The burden should not be on grieving families to demand accountability.

It should be the government officials ' responsibility to provide it.

Amy Curtis, purveyor of epic Twitter rants and awesome Townhall content: Rep. Randy Fine asked who can get pregnant, and this witness answer was ridiculous.

'I'm happy to say that,' Hawgood said, despite not saying it at all during this questioning.

'Okay, so say it,' Fine told him.

'Transgender men,' Hawgood replied. 'Transgender men get pregnant,' Fine reiterated. 'That is your view. Okay. That's insane.'

Yes, it is. 'Transgender men' are women. Only women get pregnant.

The Left played the long game and knew that putting people like Hawgood in charge of the University of San Francisco would help them pass this mind rot onto countless generations of future doctors, lawyers, nurses, and educators. It was the goal all along, and it must be weeded out, root and branch.

Pastor Corey Brooks, known as the 'Rooftop Pastor,' founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago: Government racism has divided us for 250 years. It’s time to put an end to it.

When something breaks in this neighborhood, when a window gets shattered, when violence erupts, when the cameras show up — suddenly there is a race hustler and there is money. Suddenly there is urgency. Suddenly everyone agrees something must be done immediately. But investment before the crisis, investment in a child’s future before he ever picks up a gun or gives up on school, never seems to carry that same urgency. We will spend on the emergency every time. And we hesitate on the opportunity to develop.