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The Jewish Home | JULY 28, 2022 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

One of the things we saw from Judge Thompson is that they are looking to go further.

- White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre continuing to criticize Justice Clarence Thomas about the abortion decision, even though she doesn’t know his correct name

Perhaps when you build a nation on stolen land with stolen labor, it was never going to be a republic we could keep.

– MSNBC’s Tiffany Cross in a segment called “The Fall of Democracy”

It seems odd that Manchin would choose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity.

- Former Clinton and Obama senior adviser John Podesta in an interview with The New York Times, after Sen. Joe Manchin blocked Democrats’ legislation to raise taxes on some in order to deal with global warming

This is one man named Joe Manchin. When it comes to the most important existential issue of our time, this man is a wrecking ball.

– Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) to Politico From the horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional rights here in the United States, we are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom.

- Prince Harry in a speech to the UN

If you owe everything you have in life to the title of nobility that was bestowed on you at birth, you should feel free not to lecture anyone about democracy and freedom.

- Tweet by pundit Eddie Zipperer

I am one of those Republicans who hopes the former President Trump doesn’t run. In all fairness, we don’t need him anymore. He changed our party. We have a lot of folks, a new generation of folks, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo – go down the list of folks who could give us the same that Donald Trump gave without the baggage. As a Republican, I am thinking if the election were on today and Joe Biden was the nominee for the Democrats or Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom, there is probably only one mainstream Republican who could lose, and that’s Donald Trump.

- Former Trump acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on CNN

I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.

- Vice President Kamala Harris beginning a recent meeting

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So here’s the thing – I thought Biden picking [Kamala Harris] at first was like the worst decision ever because she’s not great. But she’s like the best impeachment insurance and 25th amendment insurance anyone could have. Because as bad as Biden is, even though he can barely read the teleprompter, and as much as people disapprove of him, nobody wants Harris, and so they’d much rather stick with Biden floundering around than actually turn the wheels of power over to somebody that clearly is in over her head.

- Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Fox News

You know the climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred. They heard the screams, they heard the gunshots, and nobody stepped forward.

- Former vice president and global warming activist Al Gore, in an interview with NBC

The White House announced that President Biden has a mild case of Covid. On the bright side, it’s the first positive news Biden’s gotten in months.

—Jimmy Fallon

Get well soon, sir. You made it through the Spanish flu; you can make it through this.

-Trevor Noah

GOP sees chance to steal Hispanic voters from Democrats.

- Tweet by the Hill

I want to thank everybody here, and hasta la vista, baby!

- Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson ending his final speech in front of the British Parliament before stepping down as prime minister Everywhere I’ve gone, every Jewish person in so many areas of the country are somehow all Yankee fans. It’s unbelievable.

- Jewish Louisiana State University pitcher Eric Reyzelman talking to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency after he was drafted by the Yankees

[Pres. Biden] working while having COVID infection epitomizes white supremacy urgency in the workplace. Sets a bad example for everyone that he cannot rest. COVID infection is serious, symptoms debilitating for many, and ppl should take time off without working through it.

- Tweet by Kimberly Sue, MD, who is an assistant professor of medicine at Yale University

Because working epitomizes “white supremacy”? Can you hear yourself?

- Reply tweet by Actor James Wood

Because people of color are lazy, right? Leftists can’t help outing themselves as the real racists.

- Reply tweet by columnist Larry Taunton

We just kind of live by the day and all of a sudden we’re 100 years old.

- Hubert Malicote, of Ohio, talking to Fox News after a joint 100th birthday party for him and his wife of 79 years I prefer high gas prices = less driving, less CO2.

- U.S. State Department official Alan Eyre

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