Quotables

‘There’s no better gift that a husband can leave behind than a baby.’

Dechia Gerald, widow of slain Baton Rouge police officer Matthew Gerald. Dechia Gerald learned she was pregnant after a gunman on July 17 killed Matthew Gerald and two other Baton Rouge police officers.

‘Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris.’

Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Hillary Clinton in an email to business partner Jeffrey Leeds. In emails to friends, uncovered by hackers, Powell showed frustration with Clinton’s comparison of her email practices to his at the State Department when, among other differences, he didn’t have a private server. In another email he called Donald Trump “a national disgrace.”

‘This is beyond politics.’

Occidental College Republican Club in a Facebook post, after vandals had destroyed or discarded thousands of small American flags the club had set up as a memorial to 9/11 victims on the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Students restored the memorial and then stood guard over it.

‘Basket of deplorables’

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in dismissing half of Donald Trump’s supporters as “racists and haters.” Later in a statement, Clinton said, “I regret saying ‘half’—that was wrong.”

‘The NCAA should stop with their political peacocking—and instead focus their energies on making sure our nation’s collegiate athletes are safe, both on and off the field.’

North Carolina GOP spokesperson Kami Mueller after the NCAA announced it would pull seven scheduled championship events from North Carolina to protest a state law that stops local governments from mandating transgender bathrooms and locker rooms.