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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:

Elad Hakim, attorney and columnist: Trump’s most notable accomplishment.

However, one of his most notable accomplishments will be his decision to fight back against the dangerous and politicized indictments lodged against him. In doing so, he maintained law and order, prevented dangerous court-created precedent, protected Americans from falling victim to a weaponized justice system and politicized indictments, defended the freedom to speak out against injustice or various wrongs, and protected the Constitution and the rule of law.

Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org: Trump’s victory might spell the end of the Big Media era.

Finally, conservatives should enjoy how the liberals said this whole election was about 'saving democracy,' and then a majority voted for Trump and GOP control of Congress. Democracy hasn't died in darkness. The majority of people who cited 'democracy' as an issue voted for Trump. This is because the left cannot concede that they were the ones trying to suppress the speech of their opponents and they were the ones that were putting their opponents in jail. They were the ones raiding the home of the opposing former president with guns drawn. So, who ended up looking 'authoritarian' in the end? Democracy means the left gets to be ridiculed and rejected, and it's only just begun.

Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst and commentator: Trump’s sentencing is canceled. Will reality ever take a bite out of Bragg’s outrageous case?

Thus far, [New York Judge Juan Merchan] seems unmoved by the great weight of the law that frowns on his Machiavellian machinations. Either determined or desperate, his honor clings dishonorably to a vindictive prosecution. Trump was falsely accused and wrongfully convicted.

Yet Merchan persists in propping up a tortured case that should have been quashed by him the moment the indictment was rendered. It was a harebrained prosecution from the outset, motivated by a politically-driven DA who happily embraced the Democrats’ corrupt lawfare campaign against Trump.

Hugh Hewitt, talk show host and political commentator: Is the new budget done yet?

All of this looks like a lot, and sounds impossible to 'old Beltway hands,' but it is actually not. It’s what every company that ever found itself in turnaround mode has done and which most start-ups must do: Work around the clock and get what must be done, done. Trump’s mandate for change was delivered early on election night and the permanent government ought to have heard it loud and clear, and the GOP’s instinct for self-preservation and the desire for expansion of their majorities should help them keep up with Trump’s pace.