Notable Quotes

The Jewish Home | JUNE 23, 2022 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

We didn’t invade Ukraine.

- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the BBC

We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that dragging Ukraine into NATO was a criminal act

.- Ibid.

I welcome support from African Americans.

– Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responding to a tweet by Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, stating that he would support DeSantis for president in 2024

It’s the same people, it’s the same words.... Just insert Jan. 6, etc.

-Former President Donald Trump pointing out that the Democrats have moved on from Russia to Jan. 6., while using the same tactics

While no one disputes the impressive capabilities of elephants, we reject petitioner’s arguments that it is entitled to seek the remedy of habeas corpus on Happy’s behalf. Habeas corpus is a procedural vehicle intended to secure the liberty rights of human beings who are unlawfully restrained, not nonhuman animals.

– From a ruling by New York State’s highest court, rejecting the legal argument that an Asian elephant named Happy that has been at the Bronx Zoo for more than 40 years is entitled to fundamental human rights and should be freed from the zoo

– President Joe Biden, using a common tactic of creating a strawman monster

Addressing this situation requires thoughtful action and a willingness to work together, not political rhetoric.

- Chevron CEO Mike Wirth responding to Pres. Biden’s attempts to vilify oil companies

I didn’t know they’d get their feelings hurt that quickly.

-Pres. Biden, when asked about Wirth’s comments

According to the president, Vladimir Putin has caused the rise in gasoline prices and there’s nothing we can do about it. Who knew tanking our economy could be so easy? If the old Soviet Union leaders had thought of that, they could have won the Cold War

- New York Post reader Ron Perri, as quoted by Michael Goodwin

The guy’s not a comedian. You watch a comedian and think, “That guy’s hilarious; I would love to meet him.” Imagine eating a meal with Stephen Colbert. Chances are you’d somehow offend him over the course of a typical dinner by something he finds offensive. What are the chances of that? 100%. Stephen Colbert is a Karen, he’s a brittle middle-aged women who’s always lecturing you about something. In fact, he’s Elizabeth Warren.

– Tucker Carlson, FOX News, talking about “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert

There’s no aliens that I know of.

- Former President Bill Clinton telling James Corden that when he was president, he investigated whether there were aliens in Area 51, which is a highly classified United States Air Force facility It’s clear that most consumers, even lower income households, continue to have buffer stocks of savings that will enable them to maintain spending, so I don’t see a drop off in consumer spending as a likely cause of the recession in the months ahead.

- Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

The Left denies the distinction between good and evil. On the Left, there is no objective morality. Good and evil are subjective, determined by the individual and the community.

The Left denies the distinction between human and animal. According to the largest animal rights organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), for example, there is no moral difference between a chicken and a human being. They are equally valuable – so much so that, according to PETA, there is no moral difference between a barbecued chicken in America and a cremated Jew in the Holocaust.

The Left denies the difference between the beautiful and the ugly in art. That explains the ugly music and architecture and the meaningless art the art world, led by the Left, has produced for a century.

And now the Left denies the difference between man and woman.

What is this all about? It is all about rejecting the divine order which made civilization possible and to chaos.

-Dennis Prager, Townhall

It’s funny, Hollywood is the wokest place on Earth in every other area of social responsibility… but when it comes to the unbridled romanticization of gun violence – crickets. Weird. The only thing we don’t call a trigger is the one that actually has a trigger.

- Bill Maher, HBO

Tasty and that’s it.

- The new slogan of the chain of restaurants in Russia that used to be McDonalds and had the slogan of “fun and tasty” Under my plan for the economy, we’ve made extraordinary progress and put America in the position to tackle a worldwide problem that’s worse everywhere but here.

- President Biden addressing inflation during a speech in Philadelphia

He says the inflation is worse everywhere but here. That’s not true. The U.S. has worse inflation than Germany, France, Japan, Canada, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia. So why is he saying that?

- Fox’s Peter Doocey asking the White House press secretary about Pres. Biden’s untrue claim

I think what we are saying is that when you talk about inflation, it is a global thing. And it is not just about the United States. This is something that everyone is feeling because of coming out of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, because of the war that Russia has started in Ukraine.

- White House press secretary, in response

I don’t judge other people. Listen, if somebody gave me $200 million, I’d kill a relative!

- Charles Barkley, talking about professional golfers abandoning the PGA for Saudi-backed golf tour, for which they are getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars

The American people…trust the media now like they trust gas station sushi.

– Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA)