Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

In eight days, we’re going to take our democracy back.

– Tweet by Joe Biden

And then sell it to China?

– Reply by Nigel Farage

It was wonderful, a real thrill. I was scared for one minute, it felt like I was tumbling, and then I thought, somebody is holding onto me.

- Vivian “Millie” Bailey, 102, a World War II veteran from Maryland, after going skydiving for the first time in her life last week, to fulfill a bucket list wish

I don’t know if there’s any of us that have done well that will have a problem with paying more taxes, but it’s a ruse to think that hitting us and us alone is going to get the job done. It won’t and the middle class will be in peril, and when you take money out of the hands of the middle class, you do a dramatic impact negatively on the economy. Tragically, it will punish them. It isn’t going to punish us.

- Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone blasting Joe Biden’s tax plan, on Fox News We may have grown up in the same place, but we are very different people. But this I can relate to. I got my wife and son sick just like he did. But with me, it crushed me. It left me ashamed and super-sensitive to keeping people safe.

- Chris Cuomo, admonishing Trump in a CNN monologue

You have been observed entering and exiting the building and riding the elevator without the required face coverings. Even though staff members have asked you to comply with this requirement, you have refused to do so. This is a violation of the Executive Order, building policy, and places other residents and our staff at risk. There are no exceptions to this rule, and you are required to comply.

- A letter, obtained by Fox News, to Chris Cuomo – who is one of the biggest “mask virtue signalers” – from the management of his Manhattan apartment building

I’ve had the chance to get a lot of wins in my life, but I really wanted to win this one because I wanted to be around to vote for President Trump.

- Legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, age 91, a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, after recovering from coronavirus

Donald Trump would kill reporters if he could get away with it.

- MSNBC host Joe Scarborough

#WhoBuiltTheCagesJoe?

- The Wi-Fi password for the press at a Trump rally in Wisconsin

On Friday morning, I have on one ear a conference call and one hand mixing cholent, and with my foot I’m rocking the baby carriage. That’s what my life looks like.

- Ola Sergatchov, who is charedi and the vice president of corporate strategy at Israeli data center and cloud security company Guardicore, in an interview with ISRAEL21c, after being selected as one of the top 25 women leaders in cybersecurity of 2020 by The Software Report

“We can’t vote for her, because our radical base will get mad. We can’t vote against her because she’s immensely qualified and Americans actually like her. So we will just be dramatic juveniles and not show up.” That’s Senate Dems for ya.

– Tweet by Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee decided they would boycott the committee vote on Thursday, sending the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Senate floor for confirmation

We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.

- National Public Radio explaining why they are not covering the story that Joe Biden’s son took millions of dollars from foreign entities even though he had no experience and that his laptop confirms that he was paid to peddle influence with his father and that his father was in on the deals

There were so few cars, I’ve never seen an audience like this. You just heard a couple of horns going “honk, honk.” It’s the weirdest thing.

– President Trump at a rally, talking about watching one of the Biden car rallies

I voted for a guy named Trump.

- President Trump when asked who he voted for after casting his vote in Florida last weekend

The Republican majority is lighting its credibility on fire.... The next time the American people give Democrats a majority in this chamber, you will have forfeited the right to tell us how to run that majority…. My colleagues may regret this for a lot longer than they think.

- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), after Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court

Once I figured out I had bought two tickets with identical numbers, I was a little bummed but didn’t think much about it.

- Samir Mazahem, of Michigan, whose winning number would have won him $1 million, but who accidentally purchased two tickets with the same number, resulting in him winning $2 million

We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.

– Joe Biden in a chat with campaign volunteers

This is the most [consequential], not because I’m running, but because who I’m running against…Four more years of George, uh, George, uh, he, uh…

- Ibid.

While the council’s talking points have not changed for decades, the Middle East has. In the two months since I arrived in New York, I have witnessed a jarring dissonance between what this council chooses to focus on and what is actually happening in the Middle East.

- Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan during his first appearance at a monthly Security Council meeting

A president is only as successful as his collaboration is with Congress, and we will have a cohort of progressives that are very clear about their objectives for wanting the implementation of, you know, Medicare For All and a Green New Deal and raising the minimum wage and not allowing for fracking.

-Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in an interview with Axios, talking about how a Biden administration would be filled with progressive Democrats

One of the issues people talk about mandating not being a good idea because then they’ll say they have to enforce it and there’s going to be a difficulty in enforcing it. But if everyone agrees that this is something that’s important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and say we’re going to mandate it, but let’s just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly. One of the issues – I get the argument – they say if you mandate a mask, then you’re going to have to enforce it and that will create more of a problem. Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it.

- Dr. Anthony Fauci on CNN