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Notable Quotes
AUGUST 13, 2020
“Say What?!”
THE BALTIMORE JEWISH HOME
I was upset that Director Comey didn’t coordinate that with us and acted unilaterally. - Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that when the FBI interviewed then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn in January 2017, it was done without her authorization, and that she was upset when she found out about it
Jim Comey has become radioactive. People are running away from him like he’s got the plague. – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) talking about disgraced former FBI director Jim Comey
I literally talk to people all day long who are now in their Hamptons house who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house or in their Connecticut weekend house, and I say, “You gotta come back, when are you coming back? We’ll go to dinner, I’ll buy you a drink, come over I’ll cook.”
B A LT I M O R E J E W I S H H O M E . C O M
– Gov. Cuomo at a press conference acknowledging that New York City is losing lots of tax revenue because wealthy people (who carry 50% of the tax burden) feel chased out
They’re not coming back right now. And you know what else they’re thinking? “If I stay there, I pay a lower income tax,” because they don’t pay the New York City surcharge. - Ibid.
To the point of the folks out in the Hamptons...we don’t make decisions based on a wealthy few. I was troubled to hear this concept.
Money maybe doesn’t buy everything, but if it can buy a very expensive Covid-19 mask, and the guy wants to wear it and walk around and get the attention, he should be happy with that. - Israeli designer Isaac Levy talking to the AP about the $1.5 million mask that he is making for a Chinese businessman, which will have a 18-karat white gold base covered with 3,600 white and black diamonds
No, I haven’t taken a test! Why … would I take a test? C’mon, man! That’s like saying you, before you got on this program, if you take a test where you’re taking cocaine or not, what do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie? - Joe Biden to an African-American interviewer who asked him if he has taken a cognitive test
– New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio responding to Cuomo’s comments
There’s a lot of New Yorkers who are wealthy who are true believers in New York City and will stand and fight with us, and some may be fair-weathered friends, but they will be replaced by others. – Ibid
Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly diverse attitudes about different things. - Presidential hopeful Joe Biden, during an interview hosted by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists
