‘The emergency room now ıs the back of an ambulance.’

Brownsville, Tenn., Mayor Bill Rawls, after his town’s hospital closed, one of more than 80 rural closures since 2010.

‘You gotta re-evaluate your life when you sleep in a cot in your office and you just turned 50.’

U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, on his decision not to run for a sixth term or any public office in 2018. Utah’s gubernatorial race is in 2020.

‘To run from this discussion now is an insult to Khan’s memory.’

Omar Mahmood, an American who calls himself “an apostate from Islam,” in a USA Today op-ed on the need for an open discussion about the violent roots of Islam after a mob in April beat to death Pakistani student Mashal Khan at Abdul Wali Khan University in northern Pakistan.

‘Calling Barghouti a “political leader” is like calling Assad a “pediatrician.” They are murderers and terrorists.’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on The New York Times’ labeling of convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti as a “Palestinian leader and parliamentarian” after an April 16 Times op-ed written by Barghouti.

‘It was like a war.’

Venezuelan construction worker Carlos Yanez on April rioting in Caracas against socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and the police response to the rioting. “The police were firing tear gas, armed civilians were shooting guns at buildings. My family and I threw ourselves to the floor. It was horrible.” The rioting left at least 26 dead.