Politicians and public figures like to opine about all kinds of subjects, but only a few are clever enough to come up with anyth
ing 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) ;
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.</span>