Quotations in the News

“Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression.” — Veterans of Foreign Wars leader Brian Duffy, who called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump out of line for his repeated criticism of a bereaved Muslim-American military family.

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“His son died 12 years ago. If I were president, his son wouldn’t have died, because I wouldn’t have been in the war, if I was president back then.” — Donald Trump on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” in response to the political fallout from his criticism of the Muslim-American family of a U.S. Army captain killed in Iraq.

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“I’m guessing most women who are pregnant are doing that. I don’t think they’re sitting around waiting for the CDC to split hairs and fine-tune it to a specific area.” — Dr. Peter Hotez, a tropical medicine expert at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned pregnant women to avoid a Zika-stricken part of Miami.