Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

People think I’m being catty for saying this: it’s like, there were 10 years where I couldn’t stand my husband. And guess when it happened? When those kids were little.

- Former first lady Michelle Obama in a recent interview

For 10 years, while we’re trying to build our careers and worrying about school and who’s doing what and what, I was like, “Argh, this isn’t even!” And guess what? Marriage isn’t 50/50, ever. Ever. There are times, I’m 70, he’s 30. There are times, he’s 60, 40. But guess what? Ten years. We’ve been married 30. I would take 10 bad years over 30 — it’s just how you look at it. People give up — “Five years; I can’t take it.”

- Ibid.

If you want to drain the swamp, you can’t put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise.

- Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) explaining why he refused to vote for Rep Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to be Speaker of the House No doubt the NFL is considering postponing the rest of this game – but how? This late in the season, a game of this magnitude is crucial to the regular-season outcome… which suddenly seems so irrelevant.

- Tweet by Fox sports host Skip Bayless after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s on-field cardiac arrest, resulting in widespread condemnation

I don’t get the rage. Are people not understanding his tweet? Because the way I understood it is, and you know, (Roger) Goodell from the second that tragedy hit is like, “What do we do? What do we do? This is such a huge…game. What do we do? What do we do?” The way I read Skip’s tweet is, you know, they’re doing that, and it doesn’t matter. It’s suddenly totally irrelevant. Sports playoffs, none of it matter. People are acting like he tweeted, “Roll him off the field and get going again.”

- Barstool Sports president Dave Portnoy

They’re viewing [Gov. Ron DeSantis] as the grown-up version of Donald Trump and because of that reality, when he runs – because I believe he will – he’s not the easy target Trump is. You wanted Trump gone, not just because of his behavior, his perpetual lies, and all of this other stuff. You wanted him gone because of the policies. You wanted him gone because of how he reshaped the courts! You used his behavior to pull it off. You don’t get to do that with DeSantis. At least not based on what we know about him as of yet. That’s why I say, be careful what you wish for.

- Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith

I don’t know where she gets her information from. But if she has to still rely on a book like that, something tells me she’s not in the meetings, so she doesn’t know, so she has to rely on what other people write for her to say.

- Former White House Press Secretary for George W. Bush Ari Fleischer swiping at the current holder of the job, Karine JeanPierre, who uses a big binder to answer questions

College is supposed to be a place where you explore, and you have an opportunity to discuss certain things so that you can determine which way you’re going. And basically, what’s happening is people are being shut down. And it doesn’t have to be the government that shuts down your freedom of speech, you know, big tech, social media, college professors can shut down your speech.

– Dr. Ben Carson, talking about woke culture on Fox News

I voted for the omnibus and I’m proud to support it…but I don’t know exactly what every other member of the Senate has put in the bill.

- Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” admitting that he doesn’t know what was in the $1.7 trillion bill that he was proud to support

In the U.S., Sam Bankman-Fried is persona non grata. But in interviews across the Bahamas, residents say that his crimes were hardly comparable to the gang violence of the island and expressed fears of economic fallout if crypto investors don’t return.

- The New York Times being sympathetic to Sam Bankman-Fried, whose crypto exchange lost $16 billion of people’s money due to SBF’s alleged fraud

I was speaker and minority leader under President Bush, under President Obama, under what’s-his-name.

- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali) in her farewell address as Speaker of the House Hi Scott. My name is Scott Stallings as well and I’m from GA. My wife’s name is Jennifer too! I received a FedEx today from the Masters inviting me to play in the Masters Tournament April 6-9, 2023. I’m (100 percent) sure this is NOT for me. ... I play but wow! Nowhere near your level.

- Instagram direct message sent to golfer Scott Stallings from another Scott Stallings who had erroneously received the golf player’s Master’s invitation in the mail

You think of an idea, and you immediately think: “Oooh, is that going to get me into trouble?”

- Monty Python’s John Cleese talking about how wokeism killed comedy

There are people sitting there who are deliberately waiting for the thrill of being offended.

- Ibid.

I’m not so sure that the wokes would ever laugh at themselves, no matter how hilarious they are.

- Ibid.

The short are also inherent conservationists, which is more crucial than ever in this world of eight billion.

- From an essay in Sunday’s New York Times titled, “There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Short”

The future I envision is different: I want my children’s children to know the value of short. I want them to call themselves “short drinks of water” with “legs for minutes.” While one yells, “I’m the shortest,” I hope the other will bend his knees to gain an advantage, shouting, “No, I’m the shortest!”

- Ibid.

For those of you asking, yes, there will be a Fetterman in shorts today, but it’s not me.

- Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), in a tweet with a photo of himself on the first day of the job wearing a suit instead of his usual sweatshirt and shorts. His children in the photo with him are wearing wrinkled button-down shirts; one of them is wearing shorts

I’m kinda bored.

- Tweet by recently retired football great Rob Gronkowski

Happy New Year!! Boom!

- The taunting message on a drone rocket that Russia fired into Kyiv

The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness

- Title of an article in Time magazine that claims that exercise stems from racism

First, math was a tool of white supremacy. Now, it’s exercise. Pretty soon, food is gonna be a tool to continue systemic racism oppression.

- Tweet by former heavyweight boxer Ed Latimore