“Drug dealers and drug users are devastating to families and communities.”

“Drug dealers and drug users are devastating to families and communities.”

Dennis Watkins, Trumbull County prosecutor. In spite of statistics showing that violent and property crime has been dropping in the nation and in Ohio, Trumbull County registered a record-high number of indictments in 2014. Drug-related crimes such as trafficking and possession have risen, along with the offspring of such behavior — break-ins, robberies, even sex crimes.

“Doesn’t the intelligence service there follow those who have been released?”

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the West’s reaction to the Paris attacks, asking at a news conference why two suspects of the attacks who were killed by police were not monitored more closely after being released from prison.

“Where was the president? Where was the vice president? Where was the secretary of state? Where was the attorney general, who had been there moments before, but chose to get on a plane and fly back home?”

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation on Washington’s failure to send a high-level representative to an anti-terror rally in Paris after the attacks.