Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

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.”

– 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.

– 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 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

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

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

It’s hard to fathom, but it has been 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket. To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite expression, “Gimme a break!”

– Maureen Dowd, writing in The New York Times last Sunday, evidently forgetting about Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine’s 2016 run

Never suggested it although, based on all of the many things accomplished during the first 3 1/2 years, perhaps more than any other Presidency, sounds like a good idea to me!

- President Trump tweeting about reports that he sought to have his face added to Mt. Rushmore

We haven’t changed.

- Billy Jones, of Savannah, Georgia, who just celebrated his 80th wedding anniversary with his wife Nellie, as well as his 100th birthday, talking about his marriage

Try to do what [G-d] would like for you to do.

– Nellie Jones, talking to local TV about how to have a long, prosperous life

Pres. Trump] is talking about [accepting his GOP nomination acceptance speech] at the hallowed Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, but that could be controversial too particularly because this is a president who has consistently positions himself as a defender of Confederate symbols and monuments to Confederate generals.

- CNN’s Jeremy Diamond

That’s a fair point to make.

- CNN anchor Pamela Brown in response

The idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH. I’m ready to move on with that understanding. Who’s coming with me? Along with the “of course math is neutral because 2+2=4” trope and the related (and creepy) “math is pure” and “protect math.” Reeks of white supremacist patriarchy. I’d rather think on nurturing people & protecting the planet (with math in service of them goals).

- Brooklyn College Professor of Math Education Laurie Rubel tweeting this week that math should be abolished because it’s racist

It’s certainly the case, and the Woke need to be held firmly to the point, that feats of engineering like space travel and rocketry utterly depend upon accepting stable meanings of mathematical statements like 2+2=4 as objectively true, not mere accidents of culture

- Tweet by Math PhD and self-described “woke interpreter” James Lindsay, in response

Fox’s narrative and talk radio’s narrative for months has been that Joe Biden is falling apart. You just heard Ben Shapiro say it, falling apart. And there he is riding a bike, out for a bike ride. And Fox, of all networks, is the one that showed it happen.

- Brian Stelter on CNN, after Joe Biden went for a bike ride

I’m sorry, but “Biden rode a bike!” is not a good comeback to “Biden is falling apart.” My son also rides a bike. He is four, and not qualified to be president.

– Ben Shapiro tweeting in response

I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats. That makes sure that person has clothes.

- Ariel Atkins, a Chicago BLM organizer, talking to NBC Chicago about criminals looting stores in Chicago after an armed black man who pointed his firearm at police was shot and injured this week

That is reparations. Anything they wanted to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.

- Ibid.

You keep living. Dancing makes you feel good. I want to keep my health.

- Anna Del Priore, who is turning 108 next month and who survived a bout with Covid-19, talking to the Asbury Park Press about her habit of dancing

They’re not interested in compromise. They’re not interested in [a] dialectic exchange of views. They’re interested in total victory—it’s a substitute for religion.

- Attorney General William Barr on Fox News, talking about the radical left