Quotations in the News

“Americanism, not globalism, will be our new credo. Our country will reach amazing new heights — maybe heights never attained before.” — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in an economic policy address in Detroit.

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“By the time I showed up at the gate the employees were already disgruntled, and it was really difficult to get anybody to speak to me or get any information. The company could have done a better job of explaining … what was happening.” — Ashley Roache, whose Delta Air Lines flight from Lexington, Kentucky, to New York’s LaGuardia Airport was delayed after a power outage at its Atlanta headquarters caused many computer systems to crash.

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“I’m really having a tough time with it. I really am. I saw his (Caleb’s) brother. He was screaming.” — Leslie Castaneda, who was at Kansas’ Schlitterbahn Waterpark, told The Kansas City Star she saw 10-year-old Caleb Thomas Schwab’s crumpled shorts or bathing suit at the bottom of the waterslide, along with blood on the ride’s white descending flume. Caleb, the son of a state lawmaker in Kansas, died from a neck injury.