Quotables

‘130,000’

The number of persons who have fled from Syria into Turkey to escape Islamic State militants, according to officials in Turkey.

‘Don’t call us liars anymore.’

Kris Paronto, part of the 2012 CIA annex security team in Benghazi, Libya, on The Sean Hannity Show to Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. Smith and other congressional Democrats had suggested Paronto and four other commandos had financial motives for writing in their new book, 13 Hours, that their superior had repeatedly ordered them to “stand down” before going to help State Department personnel at the special mission compound.

‘We have gained nothing. Literally nothing. We may have had an evil dictator, but now we have total terrorism. We used to have one Saddam. Now we have thousands.’

The Rev. Canon Andrew White, chaplain of St. George’s Anglican Church in Baghdad, talking with USA Today columnist Kirsten Powers about the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the subsequent violence.

‘If you don’t get this, then you’re the extremist.’

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on potential 2016 presidential candidates who have backed his bill to ban abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy. So far Graham has received letters of support from Govs. Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, and Mike Pence, and Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Rick Santorum. Regarding a child in the womb at 20 weeks, Graham said: “If you’re telling parents to sing to the baby because they understand your voice, should we really be aborting a child at the stage of the pregnancy?”

‘One cannot win a war with blankets.’

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, during a visit to the United States in which he thanked Congress for giving Ukraine aid short of weapons but said the country needs weapons.

‘Ever heard of these guys? You could subscribe.’

U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., holding up the emblem of the security company ADT to Julia Pierson of the Secret Service during hearings on security breaches, including a fence jumper who made it into the White House. Mica also suggested “Spanish bayonets” as a “vegetation barrier.”