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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 J. Penn, chairman and CEO of Stagwell Inc., chairman of the Harris Poll, and a Fox News contributor: Trump's triumph sends major message. It's the working class and middle America that run our country.

Americans were unhappy with the course of the country. The voters believed that they were worse off under Joe Biden, whom they blamed for inflation. They wanted a border that was closed and a leader who would again project strength not weakness.

But Donald Trump is likely the only Republican who could have won this race because only he was able to speak to the working class voters who feel left out of a Democratic agenda that offered handouts rather than opportunities and cared more about climate change rather than lower energy prices. These Trump voters have different priorities.

Jason Chaffetz, FOX News contributor: How did Trump do it?

In the end, the Donald Trump victory is a story of perseverance, guts and an insatiable desire to 'fight, fight, fight' for the American people. That message resonated. Voters heeded the call in record numbers.

Going forward, we'll see how the Democrats react to a convincing Trump victory. Will they accept the results of a free and fair election? Or will they once again resort to the election denial they embraced after Trump's first election?

Matt Vespa, Senior Editor at Townhall. com: The liberal media absolutely lost it when Trump won the 2024 election.

It was a blue mirage. Liberals were confident in beating Donald Trump, despite Kamala Harris's lack of intelligence and political acumen to be president. The polls showed a close race. It ended up being much like 2016 — Trump cinched an Electoral College landslide, and he’s going to win the popular vote. On both fronts of their coping sessions, the Left has nothing. You can’t seethe about the Electoral College when Trump won the popular vote.

Stephen Moore, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, and an economic adviser to the Trump campaign: The Electoral College is key to keeping our country intact.

Without the Electoral College, eight to 10 large states would determine the election. California has a larger population than nine small states combined. But California, for all its virtues, is far from representative of our diverse country.

Would any candidate care about voters in Nebraska or New Hampshire or Nevada or Maine or Alaska or Iowa given that California has more voters than all of them combined? They wouldn't even bother to ever go to those states and would be instead chasing down every last vote to be had in Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Bronx.