QUOTES IN THE NEWS

QUOTEs OF THE DAY

“This is the sign of a friendship across the ages. And that is why I wish to thank them, thank the United States for the choice it made 100 years ago.”

Emmanuel Macron, president of France, at a Bastille Day observance Friday with U.S. President Donald J. Trump, about America’s entry into World War I as an ally of France in 1917.

“He and Mrs. Carter extend their appreciation for the many well-wishes he received worldwide.”

Deaanna Congileo, a spokeswoman for former President Jimmy Carter, upon his release from a hospital Friday after suffering dehydration while building a Habitat for Humanity home in Winnipeg, Canada.

“The prayer practice served to identify the government with Christianity and risked conveying to citizens of minority faiths a message of exclusion.”

Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson , of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a majority opinion released Friday that a North Carolina county commissioners board’s practice of opening meetings with prayer is unconstitutional.