‘The warning lights are blinking red again.’

Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, on cyberthreats to the United States, especially from Russia. He compared the danger to the danger right before 9/11: “Today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack.”

‘I’m not very religious, but it’s a miracle.’

Belgian cave diver Ben Reymenants on the discovery and rescue of 12 Thai soccer players and their coach trapped in a cave. Reymenants was one of the international experts key to the rescue.

‘If it were me, I’d check the soccer ball for listening devices and never allow it in the White House.’

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on the gift, a symbolic World Cup soccer ball, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin gave to President Donald Trump during a joint press conference. Trump came under bipartisan condemnation for suggesting at the conference that Russia had not interfered in U.S. elections. U.S. intelligence says Russia did interfere. Trump later said he misspoke.

‘They are shooting at a church. The government says it respects human rights. Is this respecting human rights?’

Catholic priest Erick Alvarado Cole, one of the priests inside the Church of the Divine Mercy in Managua, Nicaragua, as a gun battle raged outside. The church was caring for protesters who had been wounded by government forces in mid-July. More than 300 people, mostly civilians, reportedly have been killed since protests began in April against President Daniel Ortega’s centralization of power.

‘To ask me about the confirmation process is like asking for the recipe for chicken à la king from the point of view of the chicken.’

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer as the U.S. Senate prepared for hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.