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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: Sundown Joe: Biden raged at press when addressing the elephant in the room.

'I might be the oldest president, but I know more world leaders than any one of you have ever met in your whole g*****n life!' Biden said.

That doesn’t mean anything, Joe. That only makes you a public servant who met with many world leaders. So what? And if this is being used as an argument that he’s in control and has experience in world affairs, it doesn’t say much, given that Biden has left the world in chaos and instability. Our allies know we’re rudderless. The days of the political world respecting Biden’s bonafides in the foreign policy world are over.

Why so angry, Joe? Are things moving too fast for you right now?

Kevin McCullough, nationally syndicated political talk show host: Why Biden is carpet bombing his exit.

The coming team already has much to address. The fortunate thing about this group of leaders stepping into their new roles is that they aren’t expecting a walk in the park.

That determination should help them overcome the all out scorched earth left behind for them.

But they will need our support when the headwinds change. And the more clean up they accomplish the more those headwinds will attempt to blister them.

Gear up, friends, this is where the work really starts!

David Marcus, conservative columnist: With an FBI Americans can’t trust, conspiracy theories are booming business.

A bond of trust has been abused, something of value, the very ability of Americans to believe what their government and media tell them, has been lost.

This week, outgoing White House press secretary and serial liar Karine Jean-Pierre posted a photo of her staff, calling the menagerie of Millennial ne'er do wells 'the best in the business.'

It was a perfect distillation of how far both the state and media have fallen. The best in the business? At what? Deceiving the American people? They couldn’t even manage to do that properly.

Gregg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst and commentator: NY judge desperate to brand Trump 'convicted felon' before inauguration.

It wasn’t a fair trial. It was a farce.

In the meantime, it is incumbent on the incoming Department of Justice to open a comprehensive investigation into the lawfare campaign that Special Counsel Jack Smith, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought almost simultaneously and only after Trump announced his bid for election.