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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:

Matt Vespa, Senior Editor at Townhall. com: Trump will return to vintage campaign mode next year to tout his economic record.

It’s time. We’re not on solid ground for the midterms, and while I want every red state to redistrict since we’ll win that war, we cannot bank on it. So, President Trump will do something that any leader of a major party in power would do. It’s something that Joe Biden couldn’t do because he was too old and infirm to do it: he’s going to hit the campaign trail, hard-hitting his economic record. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles said that the president will adopt his 2024 campaign self ahead of the 2026 midterms Byron York, chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner: Trump's job is to stay focused on the economy.

Trump's economic program has always been pretty simple: Cut taxes, cut regulation, and make energy cheaper. The energy part, where prices can go down dramatically, has always been the key to his plan to bring down inflation. 'Energy has come down incredibly,' Trump told Politico in an interview this week. 'When energy comes down, everything … because it's so much bigger than any other subject. But energy has come down incredibly. … When that happens, everything comes down.'

Hugh Hewitt, Fox News contributor and host of 'The Hugh Hewitt Show': Minnesota's fraud scheme is exposed. Now Trump has golden moment to strike.

The official timeline has COVID appearing in Wuhan in December 2019 and reaching U.S. shores a month later. We may never know when the first cases were diagnosed by the Chinese Communist Party, and we are not in a position to investigate the horrific fraud and consequent disaster for which General Secretary Xi Jinping is responsible.

But President Trump could order a sixmonth deep dive into the financial fraud that followed in the U.S., not just in Minnesota and California — though those are the 'patient zeroes' for never allowing a crisis to pass without enriching the state’s worst actors.

Jason Rantz, talk show host and author: Minnesota's massive fraud exposes how Democrats built a system designed to be robbed.

Democrats treat big government as infallible. If the system fails, it must be because critics are racist, or Republicans are 'politicizing it,' or journalists are overhyping it. It can never be that the programs themselves are ripe for corruption. So the cycle repeats — with bigger budgets and even less accountability.

The Feeding Our Future scandal is being sold as a Minnesota embarrassment. It’s much bigger than that. It’s a warning about what happens when you combine ideological blinders, political patronage, oversized government programs, and zero accountability.

Minnesota just got caught. Other states are simply waiting their turn.