From the Loony Left
“9/11 scarred our country in profound ways, but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people.” —Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in 2021

“I live on the Canadian border. I work with Canadians. I’ve never had a Canadian tell me they hate their healthcare system.” —Maine Senate candidate Troy Jackson

“You should not be forced to work in exchange for a bed.” —Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost

“They don’t have plans to get healthcare to the American people or to combat climate change. They’ve got plans to try to steal the election. It’s just a bag of dirty tricks, so we’re preparing for everything. We made a list of more than a hundred different ways that they’re going to try to undermine the right to vote and try to steal the election.” —Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin

“We cannot seed ground to right-wing framing when you heard a bunch of the Democrats say, ‘Well, we’re going to condemn Hasan Piker.’ And it’s like: Why don’t we condemn Elon Musk? Why don’t we condemn the people that actually have power, like Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, who murder American citizens and then call them domestic terrorists?” —political pundit Jennifer Welch

From the Reasonable Right
“If I were the Canadians, I’d be careful because they wanted the benefits of being a state without being a state — and now that the arrangements may be splintering, everyone’s going to come to our side.” —Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

“We’re trying to fix the problems of globalization. ... Canada is doubling down on globalization.” —U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer

“It’s easy to say ‘never forget,’ but each generation must be taught to remember and one generation has been born since 9/11 and others were too young at the time. Most importantly, it depends on who is teaching the history and whether that teaching is based on facts, or if it is filtered through the teacher’s own biases.” —Cal Thomas

“25 years removed from 9/11, the Democrats are running a slate of candidates who blame America, side with the terrorists, and think socialism is the answer.  The GOP would be wise to tie these things together for the midterms.” —Erick Erickson

“Our message at this week’s Republican Convention will be that America has a very clear choice: Do we want to continue keeping our borders secure and our economy moving forward... or do we want to go back to the America Democrats created under Joe Biden?” —Texas Congressman Brandon Gill

“Do you want a commonsense agenda of low taxes, low regulations, lots of jobs, securing the border, locking up criminals, or do you want to embrace the direction the new Democrats have gone, which is Marxism and Islamism?” —Texas Senator Ted Cruz

“The country has spent decades rejecting the virtue and Christian principles that the country was founded on. A deeply divided country only seems to agree that the government isn’t working as it should. This is a major reason why.” —Victor Joecks