Notable Quotes

The Jewish Home | OCTOBER 27, 2022 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a painting. Does it take mashed potatoes on a painting to make you listen? This painting is not going to be worth anything if we have to fight over food.

– One of the two protesters who threw mashed potatoes at a $110 million Claude Monet painting in a German museum this week

I don’t think it’s a big deal.... We don’t look at color.… I think the minute you guys stop making a big deal about it, everybody else will as well.

- Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles, who is black, responding to questions about facing the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Tomlin, another black coach

Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas.

- Georgia’s Democrat governor candidate Stacey Abrams when asked on MSNBC about high prices due to inflation

Anyone watching weekend football has seen Hochul ads about abortion. That’s because she wants the party faithful to keep talking about the non-issue of abortion and not thinking about the fact that nine New Yorkers were murdered in the subway this year.

- Democratic congressional candidate Maud Maron writing in the NY Post

Yes. We have to be on brand at all times. Very important ... it was a way to tweak the media as a final goodbye from Rush, which we know he certainly would have loved.

- Rush Limbaugh’s widow in an interview with Glenn Beck confirming that his occupation on his death certificate stated “Radio’s Greatest of All Time”

I have disagreed more with him than with any other justice. Which means we don’t come together on many cases. And yet I can tell you that I spend time with him, understanding that he is one of the few justices who knows practically everybody in our building. He knows their name, he knows the things about their life, what their family is suffering.... There’s no other justice who does that. I try, but he does it better. He cares about people.

– Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talking about Justice Clarence Thomas

I turn to all the Chareidi Ashkenazim that don’t want to vote for various reasons. Please, go out to vote for Yahadus HaTorah (Gimmel). You need a Jewish state. I’m relying on you. I love you very much.

-Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud, who is a fan of Israel, in a video to chareidim

James Corden is a hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny cretin of a man, and the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago. I don’t often 86 [throw out] a customer. Today, I 86’d Corden. It did not make me laugh.

-Balthazar restaurant owner Keith McInally revealing he banned comedian James Corden from his restaurant for Corden’s abhorrent behavior to staff

When you see our kids, and I truly believe that they are our children, they are the children of our country, of our communities. I mean, our future is really bright if we prioritize them, and therefore prioritize the climate crisis.

- Vice President Kamala Harris while on “Late Night with Seth Meyers”

He eats a lot of ice cream.

– Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker when asked if he agrees with anything that Joe Biden has done as president They’d say the secret to a happy marriage and reaching 100 is to have a row every day. They are like that, nothing serious, just a bicker.

- The son of Josephine and Alfred Waterfield — who are both 100 years old and who recently celebrated their 75th anniversary – talking about the key to their lovely, long marriage

Isn’t it time for your state to choose who you are with? Is it with the democratic world, which is fighting side by side against the existential threat to its existence? Or with those who turn a blind eye to Russian terror, even when the cost of continued terror is the complete destruction of global security?

- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaking about Israel to a conference organized by Haaretz Daily

Every time we in Ukraine, at the meetings of the staff of the supreme commander-in-chief, discuss Russian missile and drone terror, we also talk about our partners who already help or can help protect the sky. Unfortunately, the words – Israel, Israeli – do not sound at that moment. Of course, this is the decision of your state, your governments.

- Ibid.

Zelensky doesn’t do himself any favors when he makes these types of hyperbolic accusations. They feed into allies’ misgivings about increasing their support for Ukraine. Going forward, the indelicate leader may want to try a new tactic when wooing potential partners. There’s a reason the charm offensive has remained a mainstay of diplomacy for thousands of years.

– Bobby Miller, National Review

I just want to make things very, very clear. The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.

I almost look at a football season like I’m going away on deployment for the military. And it’s like, “Man, here I go again.”

- Tom Brady

I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.

-Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announcing that she is leaving the Democratic Party

How is it controversial to define what a woman is? It is the height of hypocrisy for those who claim to be feminists, who claim to be champions for women over decades … to deny that there is such a thing as a woman.

This governor still has not talked about locking up people committing any crimes.

- NY Republican Gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin to Gov. Kathy Hochul at their debate

I don’t know why that’s so important to you.

– Gov. Hochul in response

Happy Birthday to a great president!

- President Joe Biden on Monday wishing Vice President Kamala Harris a happy birthday

Right wing extremists already have a plan to literally steal the next presidential election, and they’re not making a secret of it.

- Hillary Clinton in a recorded message on behalf of a leftwing grassroots organization

Claiming 2024 is being stolen is easier than coming up with a plan to fight inflation.

- Fox’s Jesse Watters in response

I know y’all think it’s funny up here when he talks about Popeyes and all that [stuff]. That doesn’t make me happy to hear. We’re high-level athletes.

– Minnesota Timberwolves basketball star Karl-Anthony Towns talking about his teammate Anthony Edwards