‘Xi, Xi, Xi, Xi, and Xi.’

Jeffrey Wasserstrom, history professor at the University of California, Irvine, when asked to name the top five most powerful people in China. The Communist Party in China during October meetings increased the power of President Xi Jinping, voting his name into the constitution. “Xi Jinping now has an institutional guarantee of support,” said Willy Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “He can be emperor for life—staying in power as long as his health allows.”

‘We know that free governments are the only way to ensure that the strong are just and the weak are valued.’

Former President George W. Bush in an Oct. 19 speech at the Lincoln Center in New York.

‘Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.’

Maggie Haberman, White House reporter for The New York Times, in a tweet on reports in court that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for research by Fusion GPS. The research led to a dossier containing unsubstantiated claims of ties between Donald Trump and Russia.

‘Boogie Nights is up there at the top of the list.’

Actor Mark Wahlberg on whether he has ever asked God for forgiveness for any of his movie roles. Wahlberg in 1997 portrayed a porn star in Boogie Nights.

‘Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election.’

The name of a Nov. 8 event at the Boston Common in Boston, Mass., for which more than 4,000 people sent Facebook RSVPs to attend.