Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has driven up gas prices and food prices all over the world. Everything is going up.

- President Joe Biden

I’m doing everything within my power by executive orders to bring down the price and address the Putin price hikes.

- Ibid.

Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war, commits genocide, a half a world away, to help deal with this Putin price hike.

- Ibid.

Netflix is blaming their losses on fierce competition, inflation, and Russia. When he heard that, President Biden was like, “Hey, get your own excuses.”

— Jimmy Fallon Dramatic action is needed to stop the New York City crime spree and to give New Yorkers hope rather than fear. The subway system is the circulatory system for our downstate economy, and we must increase police presence and police action. A police officer on every train worked before and will work again. But police must actively patrol and that means district attorneys must prosecute crimes.

- From a Daily News op-ed by disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo, who was actually the one who signed the bail reform law that is commonly believed to be the cause of the current crime wave in New York

Millions of Americans are suffering right now under President Biden and Speaker Pelosi’s big-government socialist agenda that has given us record-high inflation, with skyrocketing gas prices and a border crisis, yet the only thing the Democrat media continues to obsess over is January 6th.

- Lauren Fine, spokeswoman Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA)

An interesting observation – just FYI. President Macron appears to have secured a double-digit victory over LePen, at a time when his approval rating is 36%. Hmmm…

- White House chief of staff Ron Klain

When I see young people walking alone outside with the mask, I want to punch them.

- Bill Maher, HBO

Netflix is in trouble, which is so surprising because me and the 43 people I share my account with, we’re still watching it all the time.

— Trevor Noah

I feel exhilarated by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself. He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Couldn’t have happened at a better time.

– Then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to a reporter on January 6, 2020, according to a recently released book

If someone is breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot at them in Santa Rosa County. We’d prefer that you do actually… You’ll save the taxpayers money.

- Florida’s Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson

You’re a corporation based in Burbank, California, and you’re going to martial your economic might to attack the parents of my state? We view that as a provocation, and we’re going to fight back against that.

- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis while signing a bill to end Disney’s special privileges after they fought against a bill which prohibits schools from teaching kids under third grade about depraved behaviors

You could secretly ban one party’s candidate, or all of its candidates, all of its nominees, or you could just secretly turn down the reach of their stuff and turn up the reach of something else and the rest of us might not even find out about it until after the elections.

- MSNBC’s Ari Melber ironically expressing concern that elections could be swayed through Twitter censorship, now that Elon Musk is buying it

I’ve been looking for a new rock to live under and was wondering which one you use.

- Digital Strategist Gregg Price in response These economic blows are just one element in a cascading set of problems all hitting at the same time. It combines the nuclear anxieties of the 1950s and ‘60s with the inflation threat of the ‘70s, the crime wave of the ‘80s and ‘90s and the tensions over illegal immigration in the 2000s and beyond. This electorate is not experiencing a malaise, as President Jimmy Carter was once apocryphally said to have proclaimed but has instead formed into a deep national fissure ready to blow like a geyser in the next election if leadership does not move to relieve the pressure.

- Democratic pollster Mark Penn in a New York Times op-ed

One billionaire – whose estimated net worth has gotten about 10 times larger since the start of the pandemic – is about to have the power to decide how millions of people can communicate with each other. It’s dangerous for our democracy to have so much power in so few hands.

– Tweet by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)

Elon Musk and a handful of billionaires now have dangerous influence over the most powerful online platforms. They can’t be trusted, and self-regulation has failed. We must pass laws to protect privacy and promote algorithmic justice for internet users, especially for kids.

- Tweet by Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA)

The extreme antibody reaction from those who fear free speech says it all.

- Tweet by Elon Musk responding to the left’s meltdown over his purchase of Twitter

Elon Musk could have put that $44 billion towards tackling world poverty, instead he’s used it to send millions of woke Liberal narcissists into a spiral of depression, and honestly I think it’s money well spent.

- Tweet by comedian Andrew Lawrence

Elon Musk has committed to nothing except more transparency and more free speech – and the Left is melting down. Which shows two things: 1) They hate transparency and free speech; 2) They always assumed Twitter opposed both, then gaslit everyone that Twitter wasn’t biased.

– Tweet by Ben Shapiro

Late last night, after winning his battle for Twitter, @elonmusk was in Boca Chica and held his regular 10 pm meeting on Raptor engine design, where he spent more than an hour working on valve leak solutions. No one mentioned Twitter. He can multitask.

– Author Walter Isaacson, who is working on a book about Elon Musk

People say that work kills; for me, work kept me alive. I kept working until I was 108.

- A French nun, age 118, who became the oldest person in the world this week

It’s interesting, my subscriptions went up massively — that’s what’s crazy. During the height of it all, I gained 2 million subscribers.

- Joe Rogan talking about the left’s recent attempt to cancel him