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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: Here's what a college professor said about the 2024 race that blew a liberal magazine away.

Johns Hopkins professor Leah Wright Rigueur discussed how a magazine contacted her to submit an article about the 2024 election. However, there was a problem: it was about Kamala winning. Rigueur was upfront with them, telling this publication that she felt the race slightly favored Mr. Trump, which left them aghast. She told them if Trump won, she’d likely not be expected to submit anything.

“And the editor wrote back and was like, okay, that's an interesting take,” she said. This magazine wasn’t even contemplating a Trump win. Not only did Trump win the Electoral College, but he also bested Harris in the popular vote, which has irritated liberals to no end. That’s why there’s little rabble, or at least muffled this cycle, about the abolition of the Electoral College because either way, Trump would’ve beaten the Democrats.

Jeff Crouere, political talk show host: Biden in a dream world while Americans face nightmares.

Despite his disastrous debate performance, his horrible approval numbers, the dismal state of the economy and the world, Biden somehow believes that he could have won. In fact, the debate exposed his mental incompetence to the entire country. …

Instead, he was humiliated in a nationally televised debate and his successor lost an electoral vote landslide to Trump, who became the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since 2004.

Thankfully, the Biden nightmare is almost over for Americans. With President Trump’s sound economic policies, once again, the American dream will be obtainable for families who have spent the last four years struggling.

David Marcus, conservative columnist: MAGA’s H-1B ‘civil war’ is exactly how politics is supposed to work.

Of course, the United States wants to attract the best and the brightest to help chart out a technological course forward, but we also don’t want to tell a truck driver that the kid he sends to college is going to get passed over for cheaper foreign counterparts.

The opportunity to balance these concerns over attracting the best from elsewhere, while not burdening our own citizens' ability to achieve is upon us. Compromise really is possible. It might not always look like a church social, it might get a little rough around the edges, but as a wise man once said, ‘politics ain’t beanbag.’

Trump takes office in about three weeks, and it bodes well for his upcoming four years as president that those who serve and support can not only argue with pointed vigor, but also come together with an honest give and take when called for.

The battle of the H-1B turned out not to be a crisis in MAGAland, but rather a roadmap for compromise and competent governance.