Notable Quotes

The Jewish Home | JANUARY 12, 2023 Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

If you use water cannons in Jerusalem [on charedi protesters], I expect you to do the same in Tel Aviv.

- National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir ordering police to crack down on anti-government demonstrators who block roads and use the same tactics that they use against religious Jews that do the same thing

There are two whiners standing on the sidelines and trying to incite a rebellion in Israel.

- MK Tzvika Fogel talking about former Prime Minister Yair Lapid and former Defense Minister Benny Gantz riling up anti-government protests across Israel

I am turning to you – elected officials and citizens of Israel from the entire public and political spectrum – show restraint and responsibility. We must calm the spirits and lower the flames. We have no other country

- Israel’s President Isaac Herzog

How that could possibly happen, how anyone could be that irresponsible?

- Pres. Joe Biden on “60 Minutes” in September, when asked about Trump having taken classified documents with him after he left office

People know I take classified documents, classified information seriously. When my lawyers were clearing out my office at the University of Pennsylvania, they set up an office for me, secure office in the Capitol. For the four years after being vice president, I was a professor at Penn. They found some documents in a box. You know, locked cabinet, or at least a closet.

- Pres. Joe Biden when asked about the bombshell revelation that he has classified documents in his possession after being vice president

And I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office.

– Ibid.

When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?

- Former President Donald Trump on social media after it was disclosed that Pres. Biden wrongfully kept classified documents after he was vice president

We all know that Trump is a liar and a thief. We know that. So it’s not that big a jump to say that he obstructed and he lied. We don’t think Biden is a liar and a thief, so we give him the benefit of the doubt.

- The View’s Joy Behar explaining the difference between Biden wrongly holding onto classified documents and Donald Trump doing the same thing

Your visit to our southern border with Mexico today is $20 billion too little and two years too late. Moreover, your visit avoids the sites where mass illegal immigration occurs and sidesteps the thousands of angry Texas property owners whose lives have been destroyed by your border policies.

– From a letter that Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott handed to Pres. Joe Biden when the President visited the southern border

Even the city you visit has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your Administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis.

– Ibid.

Your open-border policies have emboldened the cartels, who grow wealthy by trafficking deadly fentanyl and even human beings. Texans are paying an especially high price for your failure, sometimes with their very lives, as local leaders from your own party will tell you if given the chance.

- Ibid.

When you finish the photo-ops in a carefully stage-managed version of El Paso, you have a job to do.

- Ibid.

Deputies DID help them with their belongings and DID give them a ride, but it wasn’t to the airport … it was to the Polk Pokey. And they are welcome to stay there all weekend long. The Polk Pokey is much better than New York anyway.

- Social media post by the Poinciana Sherrif’s office after two suspects who robbed a store inexplicably called 911 and asked for help moving some stuff along with a ride to the airport to catch a plane to New York

Who won the game?

- The question that Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin asked doctors when he regained consciousness several days after collapsing on the field due to cardiac arrest You, President Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built, not even one meter of wall. And that we thank you for that, sir.

- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to President Joe Biden at a joint press conference in Mexico City

We should call today what it is, a day of infamy.

- CNN’s Michael Wallace on January 6, comparing the riot at the Capitol two years ago in which the only death was an unarmed Trump supporter (a Capitol police officer had a stroke the following day and died) to the tragic attack on Pearl Harbor which resulted in the deaths of 2,403 Americans

Well, I think it is a human right if your family is being persecuted. I thought it was a human right for, you know, Jews in Germany to be able to go — to get to escape and get help where they could.

– Pres. Joe Biden at a press conference last week comparing immigrants to the U.S. to Jews fleeing the Holocaust

I guess the secret would be don’t go to bed mad.

- Robert Schaum, 102, of Pennsylvania, talking to a local TV station upon his and his wife’s 80th wedding anniversary on December 26, disclosing the key to their marital longevity

Maybe the right person for the Speaker of the House is someone who doesn’t want it so bad.

- Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) who led the charge against Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s House Speaker bid

After 15 rounds of voting, McCarthy pulled off the impossible — he got people to watch C-SPAN for an entire week.

- Jimmy Fallon

I can’t even imagine what McCarthy was going through. It must have felt like sitting outside Applebee’s and waiting four days for your disc to buzz.

At this point, McCarthy is so unpopular, even Southwest Airlines feels bad for him.

McCarthy was like, “I’m just glad it didn’t go to a 16th vote. That would have been humiliating.”

Phrases such as “going into the field” or “field work” may have connotations for descendants of slavery and immigrant workers that are not benign.

- University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work’s explanation of why it is banning the word “field” and requiring that students use the word “practicum” instead

In his forthcoming book, Prince Harry claims that Prince William once knocked him to the floor during an argument about Meghan. Apparently, the fight happened at the Buckingham Waffle Palace.

— Jimmy Fallon

George Santos was sworn in today. Yep, it’s odd when a congressman holds up his right hand to be sworn in, and everyone’s like, “You know what? Don’t bother.”

— Jimmy Fallon

They want us divided. They want us to fight each other. That much has been made clear by the popcorn and blankets and alcohol that has [gone on] over there.

– Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) during the marathon voting for House Speaker, accusing Democrats of cheering on the Republican infighting The New York Times wrote about Gov. Hochul’s inaugural address, “Gov. Hochul hopes to make New York safer.” What a stupid headline – that’s like saying, “After killing his ex-wife, OJ hopes to make his new wife continue to live.”

– Greg Gutfeld, Fox News