Notable Quotes

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I’m sorry your professor said something you didn’t like, that won’t be a problem with the Taliban because you’re not allowed to go to school. In Saudi Arabia, grown women can be jailed for doing the kind of things we think of as routine without the permission of a male guardian. China rounds you up if you’re the wrong religion and puts you in camps. More children in Burkina Faso work than are in school. Only five percent of Burundians have electricity. The homicide rate in Honduras is eight times what it is here. The inflation rate in Venezuela is two-thousand-seven-hundrednineteen percent. The Philippines in the last five years has put to death twenty-seven-thousand low level drug dealers. My old job. In North Korea, people starve to death. The only people who starve here are doing it for a role. And the only people who have no water live in California.

- Bill Maher, HBO

Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here? They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.

- Tweet by Democrat Arne Duncan, the secretary of education for most of Barack Obama’s presidency They sent my son over there as a paper pusher and then had the Taliban outside providing security. I blame my own military leaders. Biden turned his back on him. That’s it.

- Steve Nikoui, whose Marine son Kareem was killed in last week’s attack, in an interview with the Daily Beast

My son was one of the Marines that died yesterday. Twenty years and 6-months-old, getting ready to go home from freaking Jordan to be home with his wife to watch the birth of his son, and that feckless, dementia-ridden piece of [garbage] just sent my son to die. I woke up at 4 o’clock this morning. Two marines at my door telling me that my son was dead. I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election, or who voted for him legitimately, you just killed my son. With a dementiaridden piece of [garbage] who doesn’t even know he’s in the White House, who still thinks he’s a senator. So, I’m gonna try to calm down, sorry.

- Grieving mother Kathy McCollum in a radio interview one day after her 20-year-old son, Rylee, was one of the 13 United States Marines killed in Kabul

Initially, I wasn’t going to meet with him, but then I felt I owed it to my son to at least have some words with him about how I felt – and it didn’t go well. He talked a bit more about his own son than he did my son, and that didn’t sit well with me.

- Mark Schmitz, father of Missouri Marine Jared Schmitz, talking with Sean Hannity about his meeting with Pres. Biden on the tarmac when his son’s body was returned home after being killed in last week’s attack

Joe, you keep spoiling like that, next year they are going to want nukes!

- Greg Gutfeld, of Fox News, talking about Pres. Biden leaving billions in military equipment in Afghanistan

Someone asked me, “Why don’t you retire?” I said, “I can’t – my mother would break my neck.”

- Bill Oliver, 79, of Massachusetts, who works in a family lobster catching business along with his mother Virginia Oliver, 101, in a recent TV interview

Human beings do well when they have carrot and stick.

- Mayor Bill DeBlasio explaining on MSNBC why he mandated that all employees of the Department of Education must be vaccinated

20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This ain’t new. It’s why we are leaving #DealWithIt.

- Tweet by MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance hours after 13 Marines were killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul

What we witnessed – and I mean, by we, I mean our world – is stunning incompetence, breathtaking incompetence. The Mona Lisa of incompetence. Now, there are good arguments to withdraw. There are good arguments to keep a limited force…in Afghanistan, but they are no good arguments for what the world has watched. I don’t know who President Biden had in charge…it looks like he put Gavin Newsom in charge.

- Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), Fox News

The hatred for Trump-deranged these people so much, that they’re unwilling to objectively study … hydroxychloroquine without the taint of their hatred for Donald Trump.

- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

The difference between me and Andrew Cuomo? Neither of us is governor, but I still have my Emmy(s)

- Tweet by actress Cynthia Nixon, who challenged Cuomo in the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial primary, after Cuomo was stripped of his Emmy Following the full approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, the company revealed it would start marketing the drug under the name Comirnaty, so now people will start referring to the Pfizer vaccine as “the Pfizer vaccine.”

— Seth Meyers

Reject the recall – it’s not good for you. It’s not good for children or other living things.

- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi encouraging people to keep California Gov. Gavin Newsom in office

MORE QUOTES

Meet Mai Afana’s mother, Khuloud, who is fighting to be able to bury her daughter & begin her healing. Mai was a mother, loving daughter & successful PhD student. She was killed by the Israeli government last June. Israel won’t release her body to her family.

- Tweet by Jew-hater Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who doesn’t mention in her tweet that this “loving daughter” was killed while attempting to ram her car into Israeli soldiers and, once stopped, jumped out of her car and tried stabbing them before being killed

If you play chess and you’re the black pieces – which always go second. Go figure, right?

- White ESPN host Max Kellerman, trying to prove his woke credentials during Monday’s “First Take”

The possibilities are endless on how fast we can go.

- David Brown, Paralympian and the first blind runner to a 100-meter dash in under 11 seconds Despite progress, women across the nation still face barriers to full equality: from shameful pay disparities to the unfair economic impacts of the pandemic to the brazen assault on the right to vote. At this moment, Democrats are committed to Building Back Better with Women

- One of four tweets that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tweeted about National Woman’s Equality Day in the hours AFTER 13 U.S. Marines were killed in Kabul, before ever mentioning the attack

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