Quotables

‘A crass exploitation play—it’s a tabloid play.’

Friday Night Lights producer Peter Berg on ESPN’s giving of this year’s ESPY Courage Award to Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner.

‘The pile officially melted today.’

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, announcing the last of the city’s snow from the winter finally melted on July 14.

‘I want kids to jump higher.’

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, on his support for Common Core education standards.

‘It is a national embarrassment that the world’s most powerful government insists that, instead of providing contraceptives through its own existing exchanges and programs, it must crush the Little Sisters’ faith and force them to participate.’

Mark Rienzi, senior counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and lead attorney for the Little Sisters of the Poor, on a July 14 Appeals Court ruling that the Little Sisters must comply with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate.

‘If a third of [a country’s] population is in civil war, and saying “death to America,” maybe we should ask them a few more questions before they visit. Same goes for student visas.’

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on his support for extra screening of visitors from Islamic countries. Paul, a GOP presidential candidate, had earlier expressed concern about immigration from “hotbeds of jihadism and hotbeds of this Islamism.”