Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Where’s the police when you need them?

- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) when she was attacked by a protester while joining a defund-the-police rally

Reality is coming for white supremacists driving golf carts.

-New York Times columnist Paul Krugman tweeting his excitement that elderly people in Florida may contract corona

I stand by that statement.

-Former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates, when asked by Hugh Hewitt about a statement he made several years ago that Joe Biden had not been right “on any major foreign policy issue in 40 years”

It’s a healthy expression of people saying let’s get some priorities here, and let’s remember the sin and mistake that this nation made and let’s not celebrate it.

- Gov. Andrew Cuomo when asked on MSNBC about looters tearing down statues of historical figures, including Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln

Been thinking more about it. I regret calling the police. It was my instinct but I wish it hadn’t been. I put those boys in danger of death by calling the cops.

- Mitchell Erickson of Minneapolis in an interview with the New York Times about an incident in which he called the police on two black teenagers who cornered him outside his home and robbed him at gunpoint

The world as we know it is falling apart, but my two little hands are capable of making a difference. I can’t change the world, but I can make lasagna.

- Michelle Brenner of Washington who in the past three months has made 1,200 pans of lasagna for free for anyone who requests that she make it for them

She knows that she can say that because the Democrats have a monopoly on the black vote.

- Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) responding to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi saying that Republicans are trying to cover up George Floyd’s murder with police reform legislation

We are fully committed to having a global portfolio of skin care brands that is inclusive and cares for all skin tones, celebrating greater diversity of beauty. We recognize that the use of the words “fair,” “white,” and “light” suggest a singular ideal of beauty that we don’t think is right, and we want to address this.

- Sunny Jain, head of Unilever’s Beauty & Personal Care, announcing that for the sake of wokeness certain names and terms will no longer be used

Abolish whiteness.

- Tweet by Dr. Priyamvada Gopal of Cambridge University which drew the ire of many, resulting in the tweet being removed by Twitter

Thanks to everyone who wrote to @Twitter: the ludicrous ban has been lifted. I am therefore delighted to share with you personally, that last night Cambridge promoted me to a full Professorship. The hate mails & threats are coming in non-stop but @CambridgeCops are following up.

– Ibid.

So it turns out that when Andy Lack said “there is no place on our air” for my discussion of blackface, it was b/c NBC was already chalk-full of shows and major stars actually wearing blackface … on the air … at NBC.

- Megyn Kelly who was fired from NBC by Andy Lack after saying on-air that blackface was “OK when I was a kid as long as you were dressing like a character,” responding to the ever-expanding list of actors on NBC shows who are being outed for having worn blackface

I will thank Yehuda for my entire life.

– Gilad Shalit, who was held captive by Hamas for five years and was released in a prisoner exchange that included the release of the killer of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman, speaking at the funeral of Nachshon’s father, Yehuda

You have to step back and look at this. You have a criminal justice system that is imploding. “Imploding.” That’s the kindest way to put it.

– NYC Police Commissioner Dermot Shea talking to reporters about the current state of affairs

As a pro-life American, I also believe that all life matters, born and unborn. But what I see in the leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement is a political agenda of the radical left that would defund the police.

- Vice President Mike Pence on “CBS’s Face the Nation”

The lies & tears of White women hath wrought: The 1921 Tulsa massacre Murder of Emmet Till Exclusion of Black women from feminist movements 53% of white women voting for Trump. White women are lucky that we are just calling them “Karen’s”. And not calling for revenge.

- Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah

I wanted to do everything possible to return home. The most important thing for me was to be with my family.

- Juan Manuel Ballestero, age 47, who sailed on an 85-day odyssey across the Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Argentina once flights were cancelled and he was unable to fly

The Chief Justice always says that he is there to call balls and strikes. Well, four years ago, he called a ball and now he got the same pitch and he called it a strike… He flip-flopped like a banked catfish.

– Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) talking on Fox News about Chief Justice Roberts casting the swing vote in a “right to choose” case

Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again. He’s attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Now he’s holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore — a region once sacred to tribal communities.

- Tweet by the Democratic National Committee, claiming that the president’s plan to go to Mount Rushmore on July 4 is in order to “glorify white supremacy”

Hey, Nancy, glad to see you wanting to expunge the terrible history of White Supremacy, in the Democrat Party! Nine of 11 statues of Confederate leaders Pelosi wants removed from Capitol were Democrats…

- Tweet by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

Take the movement to defund police departments and the incessant charges of “police brutality” and “racist police.” Only those who don’t care about Blacks other than using them to advance their power — Democrats and the rest of the left, both Black and white — argue this war against the police is good for Blacks. Already the increase in the number of Blacks murdered, not to mention injured, is reaching levels unseen in decades. And there is every reason to assume, as police pull back from high-crime areas, it will get worse.

– Dennis Prager, Jewish World Review, in an article titled, “The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back a Half-Century”

Take the left-wing mantra that all whites are racist. If I wanted to obstruct Black progress, and especially damage Black children, I couldn’t come up with a more effective idea. To believe from early childhood that you walk through life held in contempt by all of your fellow citizens who are white is to walk through life with much more than a chip on your shoulder. It is more like a heavy boulder.

- Ibid.

It means that you will walk through life with two paralyzing burdens: anger and victimhood. Either one is enough to ruin your life. Combined, they’re devastating. It gives one an idea of how cynical the left is that it would want to cultivate both of these life-ruining emotions in as many Blacks as possible.

- Ibid.

While we await details of this tragic killing, it highlights capitalism’s brutality & endemic violence. Our movement rejects insinuations & falsehoods perpetuated by corporate & conservative media that this violence is outcome of CHOP or of our movement.

- Tweet by Seattle Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, blaming the second murder of a black man in Seattle’s CHOP zone on “capitalism”

It is a fatal conceit to believe any one person or small group of people has the knowledge necessary to direct an economy or dictate public health behavior. I think government health experts during this pandemic need to show caution in their prognostications. We shouldn’t presume that a group of experts somehow knows what’s best for everyone. When are we gonna tell the people the truth? That it’s okay to take their kids back to school.

- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) admonishing Dr. Anthony Fauci during his testimony in front of a Senate panel