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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:

Pastor Corey Brooks, known as the 'Rooftop Pastor,' is the founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and the CEO of Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny), the church's local mission: America, quit the obsession with silly memes and online debates. It's time to get serious about our future.

We already know what the problems are. We have decades of data pointing to the same issues, yet we keep spinning in circles, talking but never doing. That’s why I decided to step away from the endless cycle of debate and take action. I’m building a $40 million Leadership and Economic Opportunity Center that will transform the South Side, and I’m not alone. Many others in my community are also eager to build businesses and centers that will uplift the neighborhood.

Liz Peek, Fox News contributor and political commentator: Kamala Harris' extreme liberal policies could result in an unexpected election surprise.

Democrats don’t get it: handing control of your party over to elites on the East and West coast (Harris leads in those regions) leads to extreme policies that don’t play well for the majority of Americans. Opening our border and allowing millions of unvetted migrants to enter our country, ushering in deadly fentanyl, gangs and terror suspects, is not popular. Throwing hundreds of billions of dollars to force conversion to unpopular electric vehicles and backing regulations that have caused electricity prices to soar more than 20%, does not sit well with voters. Spending trillions on leftist priorities and causing inflation that makes people poorer does not win votes.

Kurt Schlichter, columnist and author: The Harris campaign is straight-up delusional.

The Hoffa union’s leadership, which had regularly endorsed Dems over the last few decades, decided not to make any national endorsement. That was pretty bad, but fear not. Through its internet minions, the Harris campaign proudly announced that it had obtained the coveted endorsement of the IRS workers’ union. Yeah, they bragged about it. How does someone convince him, her, or xirself that the American people will be eager to throw their support to the candidate that the IRS likes best? What’s next – a breathless press release about how she’s the pick of the Amalgamated International Brotherhood of Professional Registered Sex Offenders?

Mike Pompeo served in the Trump administration as the sixth director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the 70th U.S. secretary of state: Iran supports Kamala Harris, but Americans who want a safer world have a better choice.

Instead, we should remember that the only valid response to attacks from the likes of Iran, Russia and China is to establish deterrence. We should impose enormous costs on them.

Only Donald Trump has shown he has the capacity and will to actually do this, and if the American people wish to keep our country safe and strong in an increasingly dangerous world, they should vote for him in November.