Question

Politicians and public figures like to opine about all kinds of subjects, but only a few are clever enough to come up with anything memorable. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is well-known for this iconic aphorism ___ "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
Fill in the blank with the correct punctuation.
A) ,
B) ...
C) :
D) ;

Answer 1

C) : 

A colon here is right to set up the quote from the introduction in the sentence. The lead in shows that the writer is about to provide a specific example, not a quote that continues the flow of the sentence. A colon allows the quote to stand alone from the rest of the sentence as an example.