Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

I mean, if you’ve got a kid in kindergarten, they just said today they want the kid muzzled with a mask, even though COVID’s not any risk to the kid. If you have a loved one overseas, they may not let them come and fly, just normal travel. Because of COVID, they’ll claim. But yet, if you want to just come straight across that border and have thousands of people pouring in, they don’t [care about] about COVID at that point. They’re letting them right in.

- Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on the Mark Levin radio show

In Florida, there will be no lockdowns, there will be no school closures, there will be no restrictions and no mandates in the state of Florida.

- Ibid., at a press conference

There’s two things that pressure can do. Pressure could either break, or it could make diamonds. Pressure could either bust pipes or it can create and make diamonds. You choose what to do for it, or what to do with it – remember that.

- Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo addressing Simon Biles quitting in the middle of the Olympics last week To those saying it’s fine that Hunter Biden shows his generic decorative zombieabstraction art at a commercial gallery & sells it: Imagine if Donald Trump Jr (coke addict) made little watercolors like these & sold them at an iffy commercial gallery for upwards of $150,000.

- Tweet by New York Magazine’s senior art critic Jerry Saltz

I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man.

- Pres. Biden while at a Mack Truck facility in Pennsylvania last week, raising eyebrows for claiming to have been a truck driver even though there is no evidence of that at all and that it is the first time anyone ever heard of Biden, who was elected to the Senate at 29, having been a truck driver

Sir, there is something on your chin.

- The message written on a card that was passed to Pres. Biden during a virtual meeting last week that he had with governors

I said “when a woman is pregnant,” which implies that only women can get pregnant and I most sincerely apologize to all of you. I don’t want you to think that I am in any way trying to imply anything, and if you can summon some generosity to forgive me, I would really appreciate it. Again, I’m very sorry for that. It was certainly not my intention to offend anyone. The worst thing that I can do as a human being is be offensive.

– An apology issued by a physician teaching a course at University of California medical school

I think that the White House should be honest with the American public and say that there is no going back to normal, and that taking off the mask was just a ruse. There will probably be lockdowns, and again, Americans who want to live, as I said yesterday, this is literally going to become a state by state issue, and if you don’t want to live under masking and you don’t want to live under these mandates, unfortunately, you’re probably going to have to move to a state where they’re not going to do it — like in Arizona.

- Meghan McCain, “The View”

Quite frankly, I have a higher likelihood of getting shot leaving this building than I do of getting Covid. From July 14th to the 28th, there were four Covid deaths and 11 homicides in Washington, D.C.

- Ibid.

He’s such a moron.

- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when asked about Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s contention that her decision to make everyone wear masks in the House chambers is because liberals want everyone to continue to live in a perpetual pandemic state

Well, if she’s so brilliant, can she tell me where the science in the building changes between the House and the Senate? Can she explain to me when the CDC says only vaccinated people need to wear a mask in hot spots?

- Minority Leader McCarthy in response, pointing out that no masks are required in the Senate and that Washington, D.C., is not officially a Covid hot spot

I still get dizzy at the thought that I carelessly carried almost 33 million euros around in my purse for several weeks.

- A 45-year old German woman who won a $39 million lotto but didn’t realize it for several weeks The creative director of the entire shebang of the whole Olympics got … canned because he once made a fat joke in a private conversation. This is called a purge. It’s a mentality that belongs in Stalin’s Russia. How bad does this atmosphere we are living in have to get before the people who say, “cancel culture is overblown,” admit that is, in fact, an insanity that is swallowing up the world.

- Bill Maher, HBO

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We ain’t perfect… but your party believes men can be pregnant and “real socialism hasn’t been tried.”

- Tweet by Rep Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) responding to Rep Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) claim that the Republican party is in disarray

I ride a bicycle all over New York City. I’m sort of known for that. I’m not a spandex guy, I’m not going at 40 miles an hour, I go slow, I take things in.

- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, at a climate press conference last week

There was a point in time where I wanted to quit, and I just didn’t think I would ever get here. So there’s definitely a lot of emotions. But I’m super proud of myself for sticking with it and believing in myself.

- Gymnast Suni Lee, who won gold at the Olympics

In honor of this administration flip-flopping, I thought it would be best if I would wear flip-flops, to remind everybody of how this administration could not be consistent if their life depended on it.

- Rep. Lisa McClain, a Michigan Republican, in a video posted to Twitter, explaining why she was wearing flip-flops last Wednesday

I didn’t expect to go that fast. I wanted to just relax for the first round. But I saw my heat this afternoon, I was like, OK, I’m going to have to run a little bit, got an American in there, had a couple of other nine-second guys in there. So I was like, I might have to run a little bit.

- Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse, after running fastest in the men’s 100-meter heats with a season-best time of 9.91 seconds at the Olympics this week The origin of our abuses is us. If there were fewer of us, we would have less impact. We must consume less, and more importantly, we must breed fewer consuming humans.

- President Biden’s choice to lead the Bureau of Land Management, Tracy Stone-Manning, in her master’s thesis

The boycott against Israel is a new type of terror, economic terror, a terror that tries to harm Israeli citizens and Israel’s economy.

– Israel’s President Isaac Herzog