Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

It doesn’t pay to boycott Israel. I will bless those who bless you. And I will curse him who curses you.

– Tweet by Israel’s Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked in response to a report that Ben & Jerry’s parent company lost $26 billion in value since their boycott of parts of Israel

When the president of the United States says, “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” it’s because him and his constituents – which I don’t know how there are any if you watch any of his attempts at public speaking, but I guess he got 81 million votes… But when you say stuff like that, and then you have the CDC, which, how do you even trust them, but then they come out and talk about 75% of the COVID deaths have at least four comorbidities. And you still have this fake White House set saying that this is the pandemic of the unvaccinated, that’s not helping the conversation.

- Quarterback Aaron Rogers in an interview with Kevin Van Valkenburg of ESPN

I’ll tell you the reason I kinda said it. How I explain it is I feel like, kinda saying something like that, you gotta back it up, and so after saying that there’s kinda no other option but to go out there and make it.

- Cincinnati Bengal’s kicker Evan McPherson explaining after last Sunday’s playoff game why right before kicking the game-winning 52 yard field goal he turned to a teammate and said, “It looks like we are going to the AFC championship!” Can you think of any other president that has done as much in one year? Name one for me. I’m serious. You guys talk about how nothing has happened. I don’t think there’s been much on any incoming president’s plate that’s been a bigger menu than the plate I had given to me.

- President Biden at last week’s press conference

You have a circumstance where people are paying more for a pound of hamburger meat than they ever paid. Well, one of the reasons for that is you don’t have that many folks out there that are ones that are — we’ve got the Big Four controlling it all.

– Ibid., insinuating that there is a hamburger cartel in the U.S.

I had G-d as my co-pilot .

- Pilot Daniel Moore who crash-landed a medical helicopter without any loss of life last week

Asian Lives Matter

- Words on some of the signs held up at a Times Square vigil for Michelle Go who was brutally shoved in front of a subway train and killed

I don’t usually play my fortune cookie numbers, but I tried them on a whim.

- Gabriel Fierro, 60, of North Carolina, who won the $4 million Mega Millions prize using the numbers from a fortune cookie that he ate before purchasing the ticket

We are inspired by Hugo Chavez...Cesar Chavez. We are inspired by all of these leaders.

- Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) while advocating for the Democrats’ election takeover bill, accidentally invoking deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose harsh socialist tactics destroyed Venezuela’s economy and turned it into a third-world country

I’m not so sure he has, he’s certain, what he’s going to do. My guess is he will move in. He has to do something.

- President Biden at a press conference last week suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin will invade Ukraine

If any Russian military forces move across the Ukrainian border, that’s a renewed invasion, and it will be met with a swift, severe, and united response from the United States and our Allies.

– White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki, moments after President Biden’s gaffe

Russia will be held accountable if it invades, and it depends on what it does. It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera. But if they actually do what they’re capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine.

- President Biden at last week’s press conference

We want to remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations. Just as there are no minor casualties and little grief from the loss of loved ones. I say this as the President of a great power.

- Tweet by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Stay in school. Don’t play with guns. Don’t rob people. Work for what you want.

- A Philadelphia driver, who had a legal gun permit, talking to local TV reporters after he shot an attempted carjacker

What a stupid question.

- President Biden when asked last Thursday why he is waiting for Russia’s Putin to make the first move on Ukraine

Stupid [expletive]!

- President Biden on Monday in response to a reporter’s question about inflation and lowering the prices of consumer goods I said this a few years ago – it’s what relationships are all about. It’s not always what I want, it’s what we want as a family. I’m gonna spend a lot of time with them and figure out in the future what’s next. Playing football I get so much joy from, I love it. But not playing football, there’s a lot of joy in that for me also now, too, with my kids getting older and seeing them develop and grow.

- Tom Brady talking about possible retirement on the SiriusXM Let’s Go! podcast, one day after losing in the Divisional playoff round

Coming from an immigrant family, I will be the first to say that I am a member of the NYPD, the greatest police force in the world.

- From an essay by NYPD officer Jason Rivera, 22, who was gunned down in Harlem on Saturday night

I know that something as small as helping a tourist with directions, or helping a couple resolve an issue will put a smile on someone’s face.

- Ibid.

This is the point we’ve been making for months. Look at the reaction and coverage tonight. Tear-jerker press conferences and proclamations of heroes coming soon… Being Black in D.C. is more dangerous than any job.

– Tweet by Black Lives Matter, D.C., hours after two young police officers were gunned down in Harlem on Saturday night

If you haven’t heard of Mr. Wittenstein, Google him. You’ll be amazed at the things that this man has done.

– A Delta flight attendant during an in-flight farewell to Jerry (Gerald) Wittenstein, a frum physicist and rocket engineer who worked with NASA, who had been a regular on Delta’s New York-Florida route and who is now making Aliyah

I told him I had the money in the house, and I figured, he’s not going to fall for that. Well, he fell for that hook, line, and sinker.

- A Long Island grandmother, 73, talking to local news after she outsmarted a group of scammers who wanted $8,000 from her by luring them to her house and having police arrest them

Resist the pressure to act immediately. Legitimate business will give you time to make payments. Never pay with gift cards or wire money to an unknown person or business.

- Nassau County PD spokesperson Richard Lebrun providing tips on how to avoid being scammed

A year ago, Biden pledged to address Covid, the economy, climate change and racial injustice. And good news — after 12 months of tireless effort, we’re all getting three free masks.

— Jimmy Fallon

Does this mean snot-nosed censors at YouTube will come to my office…and admit I was right?

- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged that cloth masks do not work as well against the coronavirus as N95 masks, an assertion that Sen. Paul made a year ago and for which YouTube suspended his account

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