Quotables

‘Thousands of pregnant women in Puerto Rico could be infected.’

Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after a large number of recent blood donors in Puerto Rico showed signs of being infected with the Zika virus.

‘If Josef Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt could get together to defeat Adolf Hitler, we can end the schism in our party.’

Anthony Scaramucci, a top fundraiser for Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, on his desire to see the GOP unite behind Republican candidate Donald Trump. The Trump campaign entered June with $1.3 million, compared with $42 millionfor Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

‘Barack Obama is directly responsible for it.’

U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on the June 12 Muslim terrorist attack on an Orlando, Fla., nightclub. McCain argued ISIS—which inspired the gunman—rose in the wake of President Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. McCain later clarified his remarks: “I was referring to President Obama’s national security decision, not the president himself.”

‘My question was, “OK, tell me what happens.” He’s gone. What happens? Doesn’t the country disintegrate?’

Vice President Joe Biden, saying he had strongly opposed the 2011 toppling of Muammar Qaddafi in Libya, opposing both President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He said he argued Libya would become “a petri dish for the growth of extremism” and “it has.”

‘Socialism, failing to work as it always does, this time in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden there’s no food to eat.’

Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully commenting on June 17 as Milwaukee third baseman Hernán Pérez, a Venezuelan, was at bat during a Brewers game.