"I will always bleed airport blue."

Akron-Canton Airport CEO Rick McQueen, who will retire this year.

"They're broken kids. We say, 'Those kids are thugs.' Well, what else could they be? We have a problem in the United States."

Cheryl Langford of Jackson Township, founder of Meta-Morphosis, a program to help incarcerated and at-risk youth.

"The president has it precisely backward; despotism is the enemy of the people. The free press is the despot's enemy, which makes the free press the guardian of democracy."

Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

"Oh, my God; oh, my God; oh, my God."

Retired Republic Engineered Steel CEO Russell Maier, upon learning the estate of Warren Wefler of Massillon, a former employee, is worth $21 million.

"If you look at the Bible, it says the Antichrist will be a worldwide, popular figure who is charismatic. That sounds like Oprah."

Televangelist Jim Bakker.

"You knew something was off. It didn't make a lot of sense. But this is something else entirely."

Kimberly Milligan of Parris. Calif., after her next-door neighbors were arrested and charged with holding their 13 children in captivity.

"He's an embarrassment."

Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, criticizing the president's behavior.

"I will say the conditions in Haiti are deplorable. It's disgusting. Everywhere you look in Haiti, it's sheet metal and garbage when I was there."

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R- Fla., defending disparaging remarks the president made about Haiti.

"If you can imagine being 10 years old and being chained to a bed ... I would call that torture."

Riverside County Sheriff's Capt. Greg Fellows, on helping to rescue 13 siblings held captive by their parents in Parris, Calif.

"Age only matters if you are cheese or wine."

Tamara Jorgensen, owner of Grapes in Glass in downtown Canton.

"Dr. King's dream is our dream. It is the American Dream. It's the promise stitched into the fabric of our nation, etched into the hearts of our people, and written into the soul of humankind."

President Donald Trump, in his weekly address.

"His love of theater and the written word was contagious. I wish we could darken the lights of Stark County like they do on Broadway. Surely, his light will shine forever on all of us."

Drama teacher Carla Derr, on Kent State Stark campus drama director, Phil Robb, who died on Jan.15.

"When does it end? Does it end with the government being shut down? We should all be kicked out if that happens."

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on the fight over immigration.

"When a president insists that our nation needs more citizens from white states like Norway, I don't even think we need to spend any time even talking about what it says and what it is. We got to find a way to work on this man's heart.”

Martin Luther King III

"I dedicated 29 years to (Union Metal), and then they give me this."

Michael Basiewicz, on losing his job at the Canton company that went out of business in December.