Quotables

‘I have been the biggest hypocrite ever.’

TV reality show star Josh Duggar admitting to a pornography addiction and marital unfaithfulness in a statement about his account with Ashley Madison—a website designed to help married people cheat on their spouses.

‘In climate bid, Obama stares down melting Alaska glacier’

Associated Press headline covering President Barack Obama’s three-day excursion in Alaska, where he trekked to Exit Glacier to underscore his demands for drastic government intervention to halt climate change.

‘They have a right to their own bodily privacy.’

Derrick Good of Hillsboro, Mo., on his two daughters at Hillsboro High School. The school is allowing a boy who says he identifies as a girl to use the female locker room and restrooms. The policy prompted 150 students to stage a two-hour walkout in protest on Aug. 31.

‘We’ve heard “black lives matter,” “all lives matter.” Well cops’ lives matter, too. So, why don’t we just drop the qualifying and just say, “lives matter.”’

Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ron Hickman after the killing of Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth at a suburban Houston gas station. Reporter Omar Villafranca of the CBS Evening News called Hickman’s statement “controversial.”

‘Are we really paying somebody to come up with this stuff?’

Tennessee State Rep. Bill Dunn, R-Knoxville, on a policy of the University of Tennessee Office for Diversity and Inclusion to encourage faculty and students to use the pronouns “xe,” “xym” and “xyr” instead of “he” and “she.”