Quotables

“So far, all I see over there is chaos. I mean, it’s a goat rodeo.”

Sen. JOHN KENNEDY, R-La., questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after personnel shakeups at the agency.¹

“If there’s anything I can do for you and the people of Russia … I will consider it as a brotherly obligation.”

North Korean dictator KIM JONG UN, speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin Sept. 3 at a rare summit in China with Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“As Popeye used to say, ‘I am what I am.’”

Former CBS anchor DAN RATHER, explaining why he’s still publishing a thrice-weekly newsletter covering politics and culture at age 93.²

“I just felt so calm.”

Salt Lake City resident KYLIE DARLING, 21, describing how 30 minutes before her wedding in July she took a beta blocker, a class of pills Americans are increasingly using to deal with anxiety.³

“Our job is like being a bunch of ants crawling on an elephant trying to figure out how the elephant works.”

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory chief KEN HON describing the task of predicting eruptions on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, which began spewing lava again Sept. 2.⁴

¹Semafor; ²The New York Times; ³WSJ. Magazine; ⁴Associated Press