‘We had lost control of the narrative.’

Photographer Cristina Mittermeier on photographs for National Geographic of a starving polar bear that went viral last year as an example of the effects of climate change. She says she and photographer Paul Nicklen meant the photographs to show what future effects of climate change might look like, not that the polar bear itself was a victim of climate change—but “people took it literally.”

‘Honor killings have no place in American society.’

Michael Creed, brother of Coty Beavers, one of the victims of Jordanian immigrant Ali Irsan of Montgomery County, Texas. Irsan was convicted on July 26 of murdering Beavers and a female friend of Irsan’s daughter in an honor killing. His daughter had converted from Islam to Christianity, left home, and married Beavers.

‘Whenever I’m feeling tired, I say, “I’m doing it for the babies.”’

Kaiti Shannon, 19, on canvassing voters in Indiana to build pressure on U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., to vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Pro-life groups have reportedly canvassed more than 1.2 million voters nationwide in support of Kavanaugh.

‘Les Moonves is my guy. … But accountability is meaningless unless it’s for everybody, whether it’s for the leader of a network or the leader of the free world.’

Stephen Colbert, host of CBS’ Late Show, on sexual harassment accusations against his boss, CBS chief Les Moonves. Moonves hired Colbert to host the Late Show.

‘We are near you, where you can’t even imagine. … If you begin the war, we will end the war.’

Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, to President Trump. In a speech (widely covered in Middle Eastern media) Soleimani said Trump uses the language of “nightclubs and gambling halls” and said if he wants to use the “language of threats” he should address him, not Iran’s President Rouhani.