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I would – believe me, on D.C. and Puerto Rico – particularly if Puerto Rico votes for it, D.C. already has voted for it and wants it – would love to make them states. And as for the filibuster, I’m not busting my chops to become Majority Leader to do very little or nothing. We are going to get a whole lot done, and as I’ve said, everything, everything is on the table.

- Sen. Charles Schumer, who will become the Majority Leader if the Democrats win control of the Senate, promising to add two states to the U.S. and promising to end the filibuster, if his party wins control of the Senate, in an interview on MSNBC

I don’t think it’s ever a good sign when a fly lands on your head for two minutes. That’s a sign all through history of sin, and historically, biblically…. He who commands the fly is always seen historically as a mark of the devil.

- Steve Schmidt, a co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, commenting on MSNBC about a fly that landed on Vice President Pence’s head during the vice presidential debate Opinion: Imagine what it will be like to never have to think about Trump again.

- Tweet by The Washington Post, reporting on Pres. Trump contracting coronavirus

President Trump and the first lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19. The news shows the severity of the US’s pandemic situation. It will impose a negative impact on the image of Trump and the US, and may also negatively affect his reelection.

- Tweet by the editor of the China state-controlled media company, upon learning of Trump’s corona diagnosis

Congress might want to defund Walter Reed. It is a public health hazard.

- Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, after it was announced that Trump would be discharged from Walter Reed Hospital, after having recuperated from coronavirus

When Trump walked through the doors, Walter Reed had a stellar reputation. As he walks out 72 hours later, its reputation is in tatters. There’s nothing Trump can’t ruin.

- Maureen Dowd, The New York Times

You may remember, I got in trouble when we were running against the senator, who was a Mormon, he was a governor, OK?

- Joe Biden during a campaign stop, forgetting the name of Mitt Romney, who he and President Obama ran against in 2012

A 15 million dollar min – a 15 thousand dollar – ha. $15 dollar minimum wage. I’m dreamin’ here!

- Ibid., at a rally in Nevada

I believe that we in Saudi Arabia, acting on our goodwill, have always been there for [the Palestinians]. Whenever they asked for advice and help, we would provide them with both without expecting anything in return, but they would take the help and ignore the advice. Then they would fail and turn back to us again, and we would support them again, regardless of their mistakes. We even went further as a state and justified to the whole world the actions of the Palestinians, while we knew that they, indeed, were not justified, but we did not wish to stand with anyone against them.

- Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan in an interview on Saudi TV

Who are the allies of the Palestinians now? Is it Iran, which is using the Palestinian cause as a pretext at the expense of the Palestinian people? … Or is it Turkey, which Hamas leaders have thanked for its stance in support of Hamas and the Palestinian cause?

– Ibid.

Going out to eat with members of your household this weekend? Don’t forget to keep your mask on in between bites.

- Tweet by California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Please, take them back, they bring bad luck. We are good people and I don’t want to pass this curse on to my family, my children or myself anymore. Please forgive my careless act that I did years ago.

- A Canadian woman who took pieces of mosaic from the ancient Italian city of Pompeii 15 years ago, returning the fragments with an apology letter

You’ll know my opinion on court-packing when the election is over.

- Joe Biden, when asked by reporters whether he plans on adding more judges to the Supreme Court, beyond the current nine seats

The task is twofold: the terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box, and he and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators and the Mike Lees and the William Barrs and the Sean Hannitys and the Mike Pences and the Rudy Giulianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed by turning it over to a virus.

- Former ESPN host Keith Olbermann

We in the World Health Organisation do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus. The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.

-Dr. David Nabarro of the World Health Organisation changing his tune this week on lockdowns

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China is not the only country with human rights violations.

- Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban when asked on the Megyn Kelly Podcast why the NBA does business with China even though the Communist country is one of the biggest abusers of human rights in the world, including placing Muslims in concentration camps and forcing children to do slave labor

They are a customer of ours, and guess what, Megyn? I’m OK with doing business with China. And so, we have to pick our battles. I wish we could solve all the world’s problems. But we can’t.

– Ibid.

There just wasn’t another option in my mind. It is time for all members of our profession to acknowledge that mathematics is created by humans and therefore inherently carries human biases. Until this occurs, our community and our students cannot reach full potential. Reaching this potential in mathematics relies upon the academy and higher education engaging in critical, challenging, sometimes uncomfortable conversations about the detrimental effects of race and racism on our community. The time is now to move mathematics and education forward in pursuit of justice. - Statement by the Mathematical Association of America, seemingly giving credence to a new woke movement which claims that “2+2 doesn’t necessarily equal 4”

- Brianna Hill, a recent graduate of the Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, who gave birth in the middle of the bar exam and continued taking the test

The election is very important. G-d help us, the EU and the whole world if there are four more years of Trump.

- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, speaking on Monday before the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee 29The Jewish Home | OCTOBER 29, 2015

I can even see MSNBC and CNN reporting that Trump’s overcoming COVID-19 was racist because he would not denounce as

– Ron Hart, Daily Caller

“supremacist” the strong white blood cells that cured him.