"It’s going to put millions of households at risk of hunger.”

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, in her announcement on Tuesday, Feb. 14, that she will not seek re-election in 2024. Feinstein was the first woman to chair the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the first woman to serve as the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee and the first woman president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the first woman mayor of San Francisco and the first woman elected senator of California. (NPR — Feb. 14, 2023)

Lauren van Schilfgaarde, a member of Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico and director of the tribal legal development clinic at UCLA, regarding the challenges that Native Americans face to access abortion services. Four of the seven states that have the highest proportion of Native American and Alaska Native residents have moved or are poised to further restrict abortion. (Associated Press — Feb. 14, 2023)

Martin Horn, who was the New York City's correction commissioner from 2002 to 2009, commenting on the city's notorious jail complex. Horn's comment is part of an oral history on Rikers. (New York Times — Feb. 13, 2023)

Lindsay Nichols, policy director with the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, regarding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ expansive federal report on guns used in crimes in two decades, using data from 2017 to 2021. The report found that 54 percent of traced crime guns were recovered by law enforcement more than three years after their purchase, more than 1 million firearms were stolen from private citizens in that time and the involvement of “ghost guns” in crime is increasing. (NPR — Feb. 10, 2023)