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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:

Ashley Evdokimo, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Salem Media Group: What Fauci can never give back.

But the evidence was more nuanced than the public was led to believe, and we should have been told. We all forfeited so much for one man's ego — even narcissism.

If mistakes were made, own them. Because trust isn't built through certainty, it's built through transparency.

No document can give me those last conversations with my Papa. No diary can restore birthdays, holidays, or final hugs that never happened. No interview can erase the loneliness that so many families endured. But maybe the truth, wherever it leads, can ensure we never repeat it.

John Hishta, Senior Vice President of Campaigns at AARP: Older voters will shape Georgia’s election, new AARP poll finds.

Taken together, the findings paint a clear picture of an electorate focused less on partisan politics and more on issues that directly affect everyday life. Older voters continue to prioritize financial security, dependable retirement income, and policies that protect household budgets.

Joe Abraham, the father of Katie Abraham, who was killed in a drunken-driving accident by an illegal alien: One standard for government failure.

A policy that fails both the citizens it promises to protect and the migrants it claims to help is not compassionate. It is a failed policy.

After Katie's death, there were no hearings examining whether Illinois' sanctuary policies deserved reconsideration. Gov. Pritzker never called for a review of the policies he championed. The same political movement that routinely demands institutional accountability when ICE is involved showed little interest in examining the foreseeable consequences of its own immigration policies.

That silence spoke volumes. It conveyed that accountability depends less on the magnitude of the failure than on who is responsible for it.

Pastor Corey Brooks, known as the 'Rooftop Pastor,' founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago: The welfare state broke Black families. Work can help restore the dream.

Does anyone celebrate when they get a welfare check? No, but they sure celebrate when they get that paycheck, when they get an apartment of their own choosing and when they go out to a restaurant and treat themselves to a good meal. That's an American story.

That's why I believe in the trades. That's why I believe in reconnecting the Black woman and the Black family to the American Dream. That isn't charity. It's the restoration of what was already ours before the government decided it knew better.

Christian Maxwell said it plainly: The moment Black women fall in love with this country, this nation unifies like never before. I believe that too. They are the force. May God make them the force for a new day in America.