Notable Quotes

The Jewish Home | JULY 14, 2022 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

You don’t want to do this. I work for the mayor.

- Christopher Baugh, who is an aide to NYC Mayor Eric Adams, recalling what he told two thugs who mugged him in the subway last week

I just avoid it as if it were an open sewer, full of malicious organisms. I just totally avoid and recommended everybody else follow my example.

- Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman Charlie Munger speaking about crypto-currency in an interview with the Australian Financial Review

I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat & sail into the sunset. Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency.

– Elon Musk’s tweet in response to criticism from Trump

Trump would be 82 at end of term, which is too old to be chief executive of anything, let alone the United States of America. If DeSantis runs against Biden in 2024, then DeSantis will easily win – he doesn’t even need to campaign.

– Ibid.

We’ve got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are, because you have been forced to take this seriously.

- Vice President Kamala Harris speaking at a press conference while visiting the site of the Highland Park shooting

Glad to see you finally know what a woman is.

- Tweet by retired Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky in response to Jill Biden saying that overturning Roe v. Wade was an attack on women, resulting in his suspension from doing consulting work for the army

I kind of grabbed him, then he fell, and I was able to go back to eating, and I was really relieved that it didn’t take that long. The whole incident wasn’t that long. I think it was a total of, like, four seconds.

– Nathan’s hot dog eating champ Joey Chestnut who tackled an animal rights protester who stormed the stage during the July 4th hot dog eating competition

Pravitel

- The new name Putin allies are requesting that he be called (“our leader” in Russian)

As per CNN: I’m not the real deal. Maybe I’m not the right type of taco.

- Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX), who last month became the first ever Mexican-American woman to serve in Congress, responding to a CNN article that argued that she is not “the real deal” Latina, by poking at First Lady Jill Biden’s recent remark comparing Latinos to breakfast tacos

Republicans are doing nothing but obstructing our efforts to crack down on gas-price gouging, lower food prices, lower healthcare costs, and hopefully, soon, lower your prescription drug costs.

– Tweet by President Joe Biden

Joe Biden believes that the American people are fools. Scapegoating. You have the House and Senate majority with reconciliation powers. Republicans have no power to stop a unified Democratic Party.

- Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL.) in response

China [is] getting a million barrels of our Strategic Petroleum Reserve…. This is dangerous. It’s a national security issue. It would lead you to believe Hunter Biden is out here negotiating these deals because Unipack is tied to a company that Hunter is doing some business with. This is wrong, and people are fed up with this. It is a China-first policy, not an America-first policy. It has got to end.

- Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) We made incredible progress on the economy from where we were a year and a half ago. We’ve got a long way to go because of inflation, because of – I call it the Putin tax increase, because of gasoline, and all of the grain he is keeping from being able to get to the market. Now I’m fighting [hard] to lower the cost of things you talk about around your kitchen table. My dad used to say at the end of the day, if you sit at that table, do you have enough money to pay for everything you need? Well, Republicans do nothing but obstruct our efforts to lower your gas taxes.

- President Joe Biden

You will have no difficulty getting around without your gas guzzlers, with walking, cycling or public transport.

- From a note left on 40 SUVs that had their tires deflated by a radical climate change group in Manhattan’s Upper East Side last week

The White House press secretary sat at the podium the other day: America’s stronger economically than we have been and our entire history. She is either not very smart or she is gaslighting in the public.

– Real Clear Politics co-founder and president Tom Bevan

DeSantis is a deeply authoritarian figure who is consolidating the fringe right-wing groups Trump brought into the party.

- Left-wing New York Magazine writer Jonathan Chait writing about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is gaining traction as a possible 2024 presidential candidate

Being at that meet, seeing firsthand, not just in terms of height but just jumping off the starting block, Thomas is [already] about half a length ahead, feeling how it affected everyone else, including myself, seeing the tears and seeing the discomfort in the locker room, the talk of anger and frustration was just majorly eye-opening.

– NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who competed against a mediocre male swimmer, Lia Thomas, who this year switched to the female team

It’s a tragedy for the Ukrainian people, but it looks like it’s heading in that direction.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking at the Kremlin this week about how the West is trying to prolong the battle in Ukraine

Everybody should know that, largely speaking, we haven’t even yet started anything in earnest.

We are hearing that they want to defeat us on the battlefield. Let them try.

These ridiculous policies, like using federal lands to conduct abortions on – that’s insane stuff. They won’t give federal lands for drilling for oil, you know, the thing that will help every mom in America. It’ll help every dad in America. They won’t do that, but they’ll open it up for abortion. This is crazy policy from a party that has completely lost their mind and has followed the radical left down a rabbit hole.

- Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) reacting to Democratic proposals for the Biden administration to use federal lands to conduct abortions