Quotables

‘I do not want, nor will I accept, the nomination of our party.’

House Speaker Paul Ryan at an April 12 press conference held to strike down rumors that he could be the presidential nominee at a contested Republican convention. “Count me out,” he said.

‘The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.’

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in an April 3 talk show interview, on abortion. Analysts considered the comment a “gaffe” because she admitted that children in the womb are persons.

‘They were unaware of the rules and they didn’t register in time.’

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on why his children Eric and Ivanka would not be voting in the April 19 New York primary.

‘PayPal does business in 25 countries where homosexual behavior is illegal, including 5 where the penalty is death, yet they object to the North Carolina legislature overturning a misguided ordinance about letting men into the women’s bathroom?’

U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger, in a Facebook post, on PayPal’s decision to cancel a planned expansion in North Carolina after the state overturned a transgender bathroom ordinance.

‘Most of what we’ve learned is not reassuring.’

Dr. Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the Zika virus and the possibility of an outbreak in the United States. “Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought.”