Upright: “The underlying fear of economic instability cannot be overcome without listening to one another and working toward peace. Peace produces prosperity, and destructive force results in poverty. We need more than sympathy; we need empathy. This will lead to peace and prosperity.” —Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Nailed it: “I give you Bernie Sanders, the #WalkAway movement, #Blexit and #Brexit. All of these — as well as the protests (not the looting or violence) we’ve seen over the past two weeks — are grounded in similar sentiments: What is happening is wrong. We’ve been telling you this for years. And you’re not listening. It’s true. They’re not. But here’s what the ‘elites’ don’t know — or don’t want us to know: We can get ourselves out of this mess if we stop listening to them. It’s time we stop believing what they tell us about ourselves and start talking to one another. We’ll not only get something done; we’ll make them irrelevant.” —Laura Hollis

The BIG Lie: “The president isn’t responsible for the virus. But he is responsible for a completely bungled response that not only cost thousands of lives, but millions more jobs than should have been lost. The ‘unprecedented magnitude’ of the economic hit, and the ‘broad reach’ of it — that’s on Donald Trump.” —Joe Biden

Non compos mentis: “Even Dr. King’s assassination did not have the worldwide impact the George Floyd’s death did.” —Joe Biden

Braying jackass: “Even if people loot, so what? Burn it to the ground, you know, if that’s what it’s going to take to fix our nation.” —Texas 24th Congressional District candidate Kim Olson

Grand delusions: “Lawfully gathering and expressing first amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, and providing true equity for communities of color is not terrorism. It’s patriotism.” —Mayor Jenny Durkan regarding Seattle’s caliphate

Dezinformatsiya: “One of the active debates we had over the past week was about the use of the word ‘looting’ to describe the destruction of property. The feeling among the black journalists at The Los Angeles Times … [was that] looting had a pejorative racist connotation and that comparing it to the kind of behavior of the police and the kind of behavior that we witnessed really was a false equivalency and yet it was one that we were making as journalists if you picked up a copy of our paper.” —Los Angeles Times executive editor Norman Pearlstine

And last… “Planned Parenthood has killed more black babies than the KKK could ever have dreamed of.” —Gary Bauer