Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

At stake here is the integrity of women’s sports. The precedent being set — one in which women do not have a protected and equitable space to compete.... It is the responsibility of the NCAA to address the matter with an official statement.

- Parents of 10 female swimmers, demanding that the NCAA address the issue of “Lia” Thomas competing as a woman after three seasons of competing as a man

Bodies compete against bodies; identities do not compete against identities.

- Cynthia Millen, who resigned in protest over “Lia” Thomas, a mediocre male swimmer who decided to compete on the University of Pennsylvania female swim team this year and won every single race, in an interview on Fox News

Shame on Wu!

- Protestors outside Boston City Hall, protesting Mayor Michelle Wu’s vaccine mandate

There has been a twelve percent increase in the positive COVID rate. Even more alarming is that half of those people have no symptoms.

- Headline this week on WCBS 880 News

Masks are like the Democrats’ MAGA hat.

- Joe Rogan

I’m a Fauci groupie. I’m a thrice-vaccinated mask adherent. I buy KN95 masks by the ... caseload. They’re in every pocket. I wear them everywhere except when I sit down.

- Nicolle Wallace, host of MSNBC’s “Deadline White House,” describing herself on her Monday night show

There is no federal solution. This gets solved at a state level.

– President Biden, whose campaign refrain was” I’m going to shut down the virus!” talking about Covid last week

In fact, the U.S.’s COVID-19 vaccines were developed during the Trump administration. Biden has not made any practical moves, which is retrogression.

- From an article in China’s state-ran Global Times, titled “‘No federal solution’ sheds light on Biden’s empty promises, poor governance”

Shoot for the stars.

- Republican strategist Matt Whitlock in response to President Biden’s chief of staff retweeting an article titled “Let’s be honest: 2021 wasn’t all bad”

Frankly, one of them is our democracy. There is, I think, no question in the minds of people who are foreign policy experts that the year 2021 is not the year 2000 .

- Vice President Kamala Harris when asked on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” to name the biggest national security challenge facing the U.S.

Well, right now, what we’re seeing is this massive new wave of fear that is fueling our second pandemic after COVID-19, which is a pandemic of lunacy, which is Omicron. Now, I call it omi-cold. If you look at the epidemiological data, the epicenter is now way down from Omicron. The hospitals have some hospitalizations, not much. They were short. They averaged twoand-a-half days instead of eight days. But a study just came out of the University of Hong Kong telling us that Omicron does not invade the lung tissue that’s deep in the respiratory tract. It stays superficial in the nose and bronchus. So that’s why we’re seeing a common cold-like illness. This new scientific data from the lab explains the epidemiological data and the bedside observation of doctors that this is far more mild, the piece all fits together now, and that’s why I call it omi-cold.

- Fox News Medical Contributor and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Professor Dr. Marty Makary on the “Brian Kilmeade Show”

We’ve got to reduce testing in low-risk situations. If you test everyone in the United States, you will find a virus particle in the nose of some fraction of Americans forever. Now, you can continue to do universal testing, like a lot of universities, and continue to sample people and bring them in, and if they test positive, put them in jail for ten or fourteen days. But if you do that with meningococcus, which is a bacteria that causes meningitis, you will find it living in the nose of 10% of the U.S. population. And so we can’t go hunting for a problem that is a very mild or asymptomatic illness.

- Ibid.

That’s more than some nurses make, ain’t it? Pretty bogus. I’m out here saving lives, and you’re putting smiley faces on paper.

- One viewer’s response to a viral video by a Costco employee talking about how he makes $29.50 an hour I asked her to stay out. Don’t support me because if you get involved in any way, you’ll get hurt and I don’t want my friends hurt.

- Dr. Oz, who is running as a Republican in the Pennsylvania senate race, relating what he told his good friend Oprah Winfrey

While Elise Stefanik is focused on starting culture wars, I’m focused on helping everyday New Yorkians.

- Tweet by Democrat Matt Puroti, who is running in upstate New York against Rep Stefanik (R)

A “New Yorkian,” what? Is that a cross between a person who lives in New York and a Yorki Terrier? Was that developed in Wuhan, China, too?

- One of many responses on Twitter

Tutu minimized the suffering of those killed in the Holocaust. He has attacked the “Jewish” — not Israeli — “lobby” as too “powerful” and “scary.” He has invoked classic anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes about Jewish “arrogance,” “power,” and “money.” He has characterized Jews a “peculiar people” and has accused “the Jews” of causing many of the world’s problems. Tutu’s good deeds should not shield him from accountability for his long history of antiJewish bigotry.

– Professor and famed attorney Alan Dershowitz in a Newsmax article titled, “Bishop Tutu Was a Dangerous Antisemite”

MORE QUOTES

Let’s go Brandon, I agree.

- President Biden responding to a father participating in an annual White House holiday call, who ended his call by saying to the President, “Let’s go Brandon”

I mean, this is a deep, deep sickness in our democracy. And I don’t know how you address it…There is not a shred of evidence out there that this election was stolen. And, in fact, court after court after court and commission after commission after commission has said no, it’s not. And yet, you get guys like this. I mean, set aside the basic indecency, set aside what it says about our country that people talking to the President of the United States can’t put aside their petty grudges to behave with some respect. This is a cancer. This is a deep, deep cancer on our democracy, Jim. And I really worry about what that means for 2024 and beyond.

- Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) on CNN You sound like a communist demagogue. Prices rise during inflation. Inflation happens when the government prints too much money.

- Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) spokesman responding to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) blaming grocery store chains for high grocery prices