Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

Some business news: it’s been a rough couple of months for the economy, and I saw that yesterday was the stock market’s worst day in over two years. Yeah, stocks fell so fast, the oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling at CNBC.

— Jimmy Fallon

This is really the moment when it is decided whether brute force will rule the world.

-President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a video address to the World Economic Forum in Davos

Comparing saving 630,000 lives per year with the murder of 3,000 in a day is probably the most asinine and insulting take I’ve ever seen on Twitter, and that’s saying a lot. You should apologize to the families of 9/11 victims for using their loved one’s deaths for propaganda.

– Tweet by political commentator Jennifer Greenberg responding to a Washington Post article on Friday, titled “Roe’s impending reversal is a 9/11 attack on America’s social fabric” In 2020, America experienced its largest annual increase in homicides ever, assaults are up, mass shootings are up. Voters’ focus is safe streets – not making women swimming safe for men.

- Bill Maher

One of the things I say in response to the media… I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours.

– Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a CSPAN interview

Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq— I mean, of Ukraine.

- Former President George W. Bush, who led the invasion into Iraq in 2003, in a speech last week

Well, here’s what I can say: nobody on the right accused the man who tried to kill Scalise and shot Republicans at the baseball practice of representing the Democratic Party. We’re better than that. Nobody accused the person who was a Bernie supporter, who attacked Republican congressman at the baseball game, of representing the mainstream of the Democratic Party. I find that headline offensive. This is why I don’t read Rolling Stone.

- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Newsmax responding to a Rolling Stone article titled, “The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a ‘Lone Wolf.’ He’s a Mainstream Republican”

We hear a lot from big corporations like Disney when they want a virtue-signal down in Florida about [inappropriate] education to young kids, but not a word from them about the oppression of millions of Afghani women in Afghanistan

- Piers Morgan, after interviewing the Taliban spokesman on Sky News

They raised him, educated him, made him capable, made him a pilot, which was expensive. They see people in their neighborhood playing with their grandchildren and feel like they should also have one.

– The lawyer for Sadhana and Sanjeev Prasad of India, explaining why they are suing their son who does not have children

They said they didn’t marry their son off so that they can live alone.... So they said that in the next year, either give us a grandchild or give us compensation.

- Ibid.

I made my feelings known to the league as soon as I saw the schedule. We have always requested the league take the Jewish High Holy Days into consideration when formulating our schedule. Not sure why it happened this year.

– Giants owner John Marra talking about his team being scheduled for a home game this Rosh Hashana

At the end of the day, this was a government failure; it’s not a White House failure.

- MSNBC’s Chuck Todd

I’m not a type of person that tries new stuff. When I like something, I stick with it all the time.

- Don Gorske, 68, of Wisconsin who holds a Guinness World Record for eating the most Big Macs (32,340 over 50 years; he only missed 8 days from his two-a-day schedule)

It is what it is. It’s just a lifestyle he’s chosen.

- Mary Gorske, 68, talking about her husband’s artery-clogging accomplishment Imagine I proposed a Housing for All Bill in Congress. Then imagine you, me, and a million of our friends took action and occupied empty houses nationwide. They couldn’t ignore us. No one has ever done anything like this. That’s why it’s going to work.

- Washington Democratic congressional candidate Rebecca Parson in a campaign video

Maybe I would’ve died. But psychologically, they never would’ve broken me.

- Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed, who was sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia on trumped up charges and served three, in his first interview since being released from Russian prison in a prison swap last month

First, I learned to be a proud Jew, not to hide our Judaism. When I spoke in the Security Council, I put my kippah on my head, and I read from the Bible. My colleagues in Jerusalem and the minister of foreign affairs told me, “Danny, what are you doing? You know it’s the Security Council.” I told them, “Exactly.” First, we speak about of Biblical rights to the land, then we speak about international law and other issues. When you respect the tradition in the Jewish religion, you get respected.

- Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon in an interview at the Arutz Sheva Jerusalem Conference last week

I wanted him to know what he said was triggering.

- Isaiah Lee, explaining why he jumped on the stage and assaulted a comedian last month

You know, when we talk about the children – I know for this group – we all believe that when we talk about the children of the community, they are a children of the community.

– Vice Pres. Kamala Harris at a conference

I didn’t know what he was going to do, but I knew I was going to protect myself. I’m a fighter. I’m going to defend myself.

- Virginia Morrison, 70, of Florida, talking to local reporters after she shot and killed an intruder who broke into her home

It’s one of the most extreme things I’ve ever seen. It’s so extreme it’s like hanging from the wing of an airplane while everyone is sitting inside.

– Nic Von Rupp, a big-wave surfer, talking about bodysurfers who ride monster waves without a board When it comes to the gas prices, we’re going through an incredible transition that is taking place that, G-d willing, when it’s over, we’ll be stronger and the world will be stronger and less reliant on fossil fuels when this is over.

- President Joe Biden, celebrating high gas prices, during a press conference in Japan