Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

Is that legit under the way that the decision is written? What are the next things that are going to be attacked? Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history — in recent American history.

- President Biden after the Supreme Court’s pending abortion decision was leaked

We can’t be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that.

- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at a judicial conference

President Joe Biden has put Vice President Kamala Harris in charge of the response to this decision. Previously, she was put in charge of the border, and then Ukraine. Any day now, we’ll find out she was in charge of the Challenger space shuttle.

– Ann Coulter The Republicans won’t stop with banning abortion. They want to ban interracial marriage. Do you want to save that? Well, then you should probably vote.

– Tweet by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)

Hi Eric. My name is Wesley Hunt. I’m a Republican nominee in a Congressional District that is 70% white. I’m black, I’m in an interracial marriage, and my wife and I have two biracial daughters. Republicans are celebrating diversity while white liberals like yourself race-bait.

– Response by Wesley Hunt

The United States began claiming their exceptionalism, particularly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, thus denigrating not just the entire world but also their satellites, who have to pretend not to see anything and to obediently put up with it. But we are a different country. Russia has a different character. We will never give up our love for our Motherland, our faith and traditional values, our ancestors’ customs and respect for all peoples and cultures.

- Russian President Vladimir Putin railing against American “exceptionalism” and “moral degradation” during his country’s annual “Victory Day” parade

What I think is an undeniable and uncomfortable reality for Republicans is that everything about January 6 made everything about invading Ukraine easier for Vladimir Putin.

- MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace

Don’t tell anybody that we Democrats have a lab. Two labs, actually, secret labs, one in Berkeley and one in Brooklyn, where we come up with ideas to completely [anger] the working class. And it’s working wonderfully…and they all have PhDs …in [angering] the working class. Somehow, in my lifetime, the Democrats have gone from being the party of the factory floor to being the party faculty lounge… I spent Wednesday last week in Chicago with the machinists union. Hung out with the machinists all day; great guys. Not a one of them came up to me and said, “Gee, I really hope you take my tax dollars to pay off the debt of somebody that went to Stanford.”

- Democratic strategist Pail Begala on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” HBO

Don’t jump!

- President Biden, while taking a photo last week with wheelchairbound Paralympic athletes

I thought it would be a great way to inspire others to push your limits, because I truly believe that we’re stronger than what we think.

- Amputee Jacky Hunt-Broersma of Arizona who became a world record holder after she ran 104 marathons in 104 days (she has a prosthetic leg)

Stolen emails, stolen drone, stolen election … welcome to the world of #unpresidented Trump.

- 2016 tweet by new White House press secretary Karine JeanPierre

There’s already this idea, this allegation, that there is anti-conservative bias on the platforms, even though there has been study after study proving, in fact, that often it’s liberal voices that are being silenced, particularly minority voices on social media.

- Nina Jankowicz, President Biden’s executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s new “Disinformation Governance Board” Drinking cow’s milk is like driving a gas guzzler. The dairy industry is one of the worst contributors to the climate catastrophe. What happened to caring about the environment? Now, chocolate oat milk we can get behind.

– PETA, responding to a tweet by Elon Musk that he likes chocolate milk

If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin’ ya.

- Tweet by Elon Musk with an article attachment reporting that Russia is angry at him for helping Ukraine

When I first asked my mom for the Guinness World Records Book as a kid, she told me she would only buy it if I had something amazing to make my way into it. I really don’t know if she meant it that time, but here we are living the dream.

- Al Refaie, of Kuwait, upon earning a Guinness World Record for completing his goal of climbing the Seven Volcanic Summits at the age of 24 years and 119 days old

[T]he Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms.

- From a tweet by Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot

I had never done it, and I’ve done a lot of things in 100 years so I thought I must do it while I can.

- Floridian Raymonde Sullivan explaining why she decided to carry out a skydive for her 100th birthday

This weekend was also Mother’s Day, of course… I saw that first lady Jill Biden spent the day in Ukraine and met with the Ukrainian first lady. Yeah, basically, Joe got her an Edible Arrangement for Mother’s Day and Jill was like, “You know what? I’m going to go to Ukraine — I’m good.”

— Jimmy Fallon

I think it was a morally bad decision, to be clear, and foolish in the extreme. I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake. It alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice.

- Elon Musk, while speaking at the Financial Times’ “Future of the Car” conference

I think our policies helped, not hurt.

– President Biden when asked about out-of-control inflation “If you’re not in the lineup, just be ready, you’re going to hit a home run today.” I’m like, “Mom, that’s hard to do.”

- San Diego Padres catcher Jorge Alfaro, who came into the game as a pinch hitter on Mother’s Day and hit a game winning 3-run-homer, recalling a conversation earlier in the day when he called to wish his mother Happy Mother’s Day

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