Attribution: Quoes Within A Quote

When you have a quote, you use the traditional quotation symbols (" and ") to signify the quote itself.

But what if you have a quote within a quote? That is a quote where the subject is also quoting someone else?

For the quote within a quote, you use single quotation marks (' and ').

This is what it looks like, in actual use:

"My dad told me, 'Americans suffer under the illusion that everything can be cured by passing a new law.' My dad with right, of course. Most things can't be solved by a new law," Karpov said.

See? So remember, a quote gets the traditional double quotation marks; a quote within a quote is offset with single quotation marks.