Notable Quotes

The Jewish Home | SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

According to a new poll, Bernie Sanders had the highest favorability rating among 23 potential 2024 presidential contenders, which is kind of like winning first place at an ugly baby contest… So why is Bernie still popular? … I have a theory. I call it the old man theory… Remember when you were growing up, everyone’s grandparents were magical. But they can’t be all that great, some had to be jerks, right? At least 10% of those adorable silver haired sweethearts were probably creeps 30 years ago. But age makes people seem more benign. It’s why whenever you see an old inmate on death row, you think, “Oh, he can’t be that bad. He’s got close cropped white hair and librarian glasses, perfect for the parole board. Because how could this 78-year-old possibly hurt anyone? He could barely lift a chainsaw now.”

- Greg Gutfeld, Fox News

The Queen dies at 96 — that’s a pretty good run. I feel like if you die anywhere on the FM radio dial, it’s — you know? My goal is to make it to Hot 97 — or maybe even Power 106, who knows? The Queen of England is one of the greatest criminals in the history of mankind… She should be included in the same list with Hitler.

– Iranian Professor at Tehran University on Iranian TV

If you really think about what the monarchy, um, was built on, it was built on the backs of black and brown people… She wore a crown with pillaged stones from India and Africa.

- “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin talking about deceased Queen Elizabeth II

I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.

- Uju Anya, associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University

This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow.

- Jeff Bezos responding to Uju Anya’s tweet

When we went to France to see my dad, my cousins would tell me how kids would pull their kippot off, call them names and steal their bikes because they were Jewish. I would go around Paris and hunt the bullies down, and strike back.

-Natan Levy, the only Israeli competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship martial arts competition, in an interview with the UK Jewish Chronicle

Every Jew in the world should learn the art of self-defense. Be proud of who you are. It’s a dangerous world out there. Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do.

- Ibid.

The threat landscape has evolved considerably over the last twenty years… We were very focused on the foreign terrorist… Now we are seeing an emerging threat, of course over the last several years, of the domestic violent extremists. The individual here in the United States is radicalized by a foreign ideology but also by an ideology of hate. Anti-government sentiment, false narratives propagated on online platforms.

- DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

I, like some of my fellow service members, I enlisted because of those jihadist attacks on 9/11, to support and defend our Constitution to protect our fellow Americans and to go after and kill those who attacked us on that day. And it is despicable and outrageous to hear these people, to hear these people say the things that they are saying, comparing our fellow Americans to terrorists. Actually worse. They literally said they are worse than al-Qaeda terrorists.

- Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, on Fox News

This just shows how far they are willing to go. Pushing our country to the brink of civil war. Demonizing, targeting our fellow Americans as worse than al-Qaeda terrorists. All to hold on to their power. That’s all they care about.

- Ibid.

I do agree with them… There is a domestic threat to our democracy. It is a very serious one. But it is not in the hands of a few powerless Americans who are [upset] and frustrated that our government is failing us. It is the threat coming from some of the most powerful people in our government, some of the people that I have talked about in the Biden administration, the national security state apparatus that’s being weaponized against our fellow Americans again because they voted against the president or because they disagree with his policies.

- Ibid. Just look at the current condition of New York City and New York State: There’s mayhem in our streets, in our courts, in our jails. We’re headed in the wrong direction. The handwriting is on the wall. Lee Zeldin is the best option for voters.

- Democrat Queens Councilman Robert Holden endorsing Lee Zeldin for governor

During the last 70 years tens of thousands of students have graduated from our #Satmar School System not a single student ever murdered a human being (unlike the “substantially equivalent” Public School system). We are proud of our success and will continue without State control!

- Tweet by Satmar responding to the “substantial equivalency” push in New York targeting yeshivas

It wasn’t us who started the military action; we are trying to put an end to it.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin at an annual conference in Russia, blaming Ukraine for the war

All our action has been aimed at helping people living in the Donbas. It’s our duty and we will fulfill it until the end. In the longer run, it will help strengthen our country both domestically and internationally.

We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours and our administration.

- Vice President Kamala Harris on “Meet the Press,” even though 2 million people entered the U.S. from the southern border so far this year