‘I don’t know what else to do except this.’

Chase Cook, a reporter for the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., on why he kept reporting after the June 28 shooting that killed five of his friends and co-workers at the newspaper’s office.

‘The contamination is … much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India.’

Lee Riley, an infectious disease scientist, on conditions in San Francisco, Calif., compared to slums in foreign countries. An NBC Bay Area investigation found that, out of 153 city blocks surveyed, 96 contained piles of feces and 41 contained used drug needles in the streets.

‘This bigoted fool should receive ZERO votes.’

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Arthur Jones, Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Illinois. Jones denies the Holocaust and has ties to white supremacist groups.

‘I would analogize it to walking down a dark alley in a big city.’

Jake Williams, founder of Rendition Infosec, on the risk visitors take if they use their laptop in Russia during the World Cup. Experts say personal data of visitors may be accessed by the Russian government or by cybercriminals.

‘An open-faced roast beef sandwich is USDA, a closed-faced roast beef sandwich is FDA. … You can’t make this kind of stuff up. This would only happen in the government.’

OMB Director Mick Mulvaney on redundancy and overlap in federal regulations and programs. He noted that the government currently has more than 40 job training programs spread across 16 different Cabinet agencies.