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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:

Mark Lewis, political commentator and author: AOC, ice cream, and veggies.

And the people, having filled themselves and gotten fat, becoming abundant and apathetic, selfish, lazy, decadent, perverted, and pleasure-loving, no longer have the strength of character or intelligence to resist. So, it’s on to dependence. Then back into bondage.

To most people, ice cream tastes better than spinach. And there will always be those, like Democrats, to dish out the ice cream and tell the gullible it is as healthy as spinach.

Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: A democratic fantasy world.

Of course, at that time, experiencing fantasies about Trump and Russia was an everyday experience for many Democrats and their allies in the press. Indeed, watching some news coverage from the time, who wouldn't believe the wildest stories about Trump? Now, the phenomenon has been updated with new material — the assassination attempts — but the willingness to believe anything is the same.

Jonathan Turley, Fox News Media contributor and the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University: AOC's war on billionaires twists America's birth into a socialist myth.

The greatest irony is that Ocasio-Cortez personifies what the Founders truly wanted to combat. They feared mobocracy and the tyranny of the majority, the arbitrary power that can come from majoritarian abuse.

Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, and others are truly not new or particularly interesting additions to the political dialogue. They are the same voices of democratic despotism that Madison and others sought to quell.

Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the CEO of Project H.O.O.D.: Progressive prosecutors lit the fuse, and teen mobs are the explosion.

The fear I grew up with — fear of God, fear of dishonoring my elders, fear of real consequences — was not a curse. It was a gift. It kept me alive. It got me through college and seminary school. It kept me focused on a future I could be proud of. These kids running wild in teen takeovers have been robbed of that gift.

If we want our streets back, if we want our children back, we have to rebuild a culture where there are lines you do not cross and laws you do not ignore — because if you do, there will be a reckoning. A society without fear of consequences is a society without peace. And if we don’t change course, we are going to learn that the hard way one day, and by then it may be too late.

David Marcus, columnist for Fox News Digital: Why the government must protect our neighborhoods from violent protests.

But we can make clear that, if in so doing, you break the law, it’s not just a ticket and a summons but real jail time for terrorizing people on the streets where they and their children live.

Brooklyn is known as the city of homes and churches, and we are very lucky that, so far, the targeting of those homes and places of worship by lefty protesters has not left anyone dead. But before that luck runs out, Congress should act, and protect our residences and our families from political violence.