Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

We’ve already taught these poor 18-year-olds that when you’re told to go to class and you don’t like it, you can leave. We’ve already told these kids if you’re not happy, you can do something else. We’ve already told these kids that it’s hard to hold them accountable. And now, we’re going to tell them to not man up and walk down a line on someone who’s [beat you] and have enough class to shake their hand is utterly ridiculous… Not shaking hands is typical of our country right now. Instead of solving the problem, let’s make an excuse and let’s see if we can just, instead of confronting and demanding that it changes, let’s eliminate it so that we don’t have those problems.

- Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo addressing the possibility that the traditional postgame handshake will be eliminated after a brawl broke out on one last week

Champ

- What Rams player Van Jefferson named his son who was born moments after the Rams won the Super Bowl

Sadly, the virus itself, particularly the variant called omicron, is a type of vaccine, that is, it creates both B-cell and T-cell immunity, and it’s done a better job getting out to the world population than we have with vaccines.

- Billionaire Bill Gates speaking at the Munich Security Conference Political correctness has killed comedy, has killed it. Every joke now, it hurts somebody’s feelings. What people don’t understand about comedians is that a joke has to be about something.

- Actor and comedian Steve Harvey

I don’t believe that a child should be in a cage on our border, and I don’t believe a child should be in a cage in the West Bank

- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Dem/Socialist-NY) while campaigning for progressives in Texas, making up a completely false allegation about Israel

I’m a black man that’s the mayor but my story is being interpreted by people that don’t look like me. How many blacks are on editorial boards? How many blacks determine how these stories are being written?

- New York City Mayor Eric Adams, claiming that the media is unfair to him because of racism

Diversify your newsrooms so I can look out and see people who look like me.

- Ibid.

Speak! Speak! Speak plainly!

– Russian President Vladimir Putin to his Director of Foreign Intelligence Sergey Naryshkin when Naryshkin seemed nervous and was hemming-and-hawing during a televised meeting

Will visit IRS next time I’m in DC just to say hi, since I paid the most taxes ever in history for an individual last year. Maybe I can have a cookie or something.

- Tweet by Elon Musk

A mask mandate may not magically swaddle the faces of everyone in its jurisdiction, but it could remind already enthusiastic maskers to avoid large gatherings or lead non-maskers to give the people around them a little more space.

- From an article in the Atlantic titled, “Mask Mandates Don’t Need to Make Sense: They Only Need to Align With the Communities’ Goals”

“Mask Mandates Don’t Need to Make Sense” … but if you question them, you’re a bad person.

- Tweet by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw in response to the Atlantic article ***

In San Francisco, you have to have the mask on when you’re shoplifting indoors.

- Bill Maher, HBO

Cloth masks don’t work; the virus goes through the cloth mask and around the cloth mask. It’s a joke, it’s theater, and there’s no reason to be wearing them on the planes. We are just punishing ourselves. And I, for one, I’m tired of paying the airlines to be treated like [garbage] when I get on the plane.

- Sen. Rand Paul on Newsmax

I want to be treated like a paying customer, and I want them to bring me at least a glass of water and peanuts, and I don’t want somebody jammering at me to put my mask on in between peanuts. I mean, for goodness’ sakes, I’m paying you money. Treat me like a customer.

– Ibid.

I’m proud of the fact that I avoided it. It’s like some … disease or something. I just regard it as beneath contempt. Some people think it’s modernity, and they welcome a currency that’s useful in extortions and kidnappings and so on and so on … tax evasions.

- Berkshire Hathaway’s billionaire vice chairman Charlie Munger, age 98, right-hand man to Warren Buffett, blasting cryptocurrencies in an interview at the Daily Journal’s annual meeting We are looking at a moment that is a very decisive moment on one of the bases for the Munich Security Conference and certainly one of the founding reasons for NATO, which is European security and the connection and alliance between Europe and the United States. It was important in that, as you all know, this is a moment that is very dynamic. If not every hour, certainly every day, there seem to be new moments of interest and also of intelligence.

- Vice President Harris talking about the Russia-Ukraine crisis at the conclusion of the Munich Security Conference

I am a strong Jewish woman and a member of this House and a descendant of Holocaust survivors, and it’s never been singled out, and I’ve never been made to feel less, except for today when the prime minister accused me of standing with swastikas. I think he owes me an apology, I’d like an apology, and I think he owes an apology to all members of this House.

– Canadian Conservative Party member Melissa Lantsman, a descendent of Holocaust survivors, responding to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accusing her of standing with people who are pro-Nazi, after she showed support for the truck convoy drivers, who have nothing to do with Nazis at all but are opposed to Trudeau’s draconian Covid measures

Never forget the words of Joseph Stalin, who is the mentor to Vladimir Putin. He said, “When you’re going to advance against your enemy, you stick your bayonet forward, and if you feel mush, you keep going. If you hit steel, you stop and retreat.” Well, what is Putin hitting? Mush. Because Joe Biden has had weeks to prepare for a reaction to what Putin is currently doing. It’s not like this just happened last night, and it caught everybody off-guard. Takes a while to amass a couple of hundred thousand troops, and so the fact that we don’t know yet what we’re going to do, we haven’t announced anything all that specific…it is just incredible.