Notable Quotes

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Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice!

- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd

Not wishing to be left behind by Hank Azaria, I would like to apologize on behalf on Monty Python for all the many sketches we did making fun of white English people. We’re sorry for any distress we may have caused.

– Tweet by comedian John Cleese, who was in Monty Python sketches, mocking “The Simpsons” actor Hank Azaria’s recent apology for voicing an Indian-American character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on the show since 1989

Once a year ends, then there is another. So I hope to keep on going like that.

- Yasuko Tamaki, a 90-year-old Japanese woman who has worked for the same company since 1956, upon earning a Guinness World Record as the world’s oldest office manager The existing scientific evidences challenge the safety and efficacy of wearing facemask as preventive intervention for COVID-19. The data suggest that both medical and non-medical facemasks are ineffective to block human-to-human transmission of viral and infectious disease such SARSCoV-2 and COVID-19, supporting against the usage of facemasks.

– From a study by the National Center for Biotechnological Information, a branch of the National Institute for Health

Wearing facemasks has been demonstrated to have substantial adverse physiological and psychological effects. These include hypoxia, hypercapnia, shortness of breath, increased acidity and toxicity, activation of fear and stress response, rise in stress hormones, immunosuppression, fatigue, headaches, decline in cognitive performance, predisposition for viral and infectious illnesses, chronic stress, anxiety and depression. Long-term consequences of wearing facemask can cause health deterioration, developing and progression of chronic diseases and premature death

- Ibid.

Shootings, gun laws, access to weapons – oh, I know when they’ll change: [When] your kids start getting killed, white people’s kids start getting killed.

- CNN’s Chris Cuomo

Our democracy is in jeopardy today because the Supreme Court standing is sorely damaged. The way we repair it is straightforward. We can undo the damage that the Republicans have done by restoring balance. And we do it by adding four seats to the Court to create a 13-member Supreme Court.

- Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), “justifying” the Democrats’ plan to pack the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13

Some people will say we’re packing the Court. We’re not packing the Court; we’re unpacking it.

- Rep. Jerry Nadler (D- Brooklyn), “justifying” the Democrats’ plan to add four justices to the Supreme Court

We’re a special place, and there are millions and millions of people who like to come here. And quite frankly, we like to have them here. So we only want to share one thing as you move in hundreds a day: Welcome to Florida. But don’t register to vote and vote the stupid way you did up north. You’ll get what they got.

- Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, standing beside Governor Ron DeSantis during a press conference

There’s a reason that this place is fun. There’s a reason why we have a 49-yearlow crime rate. And the same people that don’t think we should have an anti-rioting bill or a rioting bill are the same ones that think we ought to let more people out of prison. And where they’re doing that, as the governor and our speakers have alluded to, crime goes up, but it’s not just crime that goes up, victimization goes up.

– Ibid.

I blame the second Johnson. He never graduated high school.

— Jimmy Kimmel, referring to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

When reached for comment, Johnson said it was Johnson’s fault, but Johnson pointed the finger at Johnson.

— Stephen Colbert

The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.

- The New York Times reporting on January 7 that Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by rioters on January 6. (They have not yet retracted that report despite the medical examiner’s recent conclusion that he died of natural causes (a stroke) the day after the event and did not exhibit any signs of internal or external injuries and did not exhibit any signs of a negative reaction to tear gas or any other chemicals that may have been used on January 6)

This is what is so repulsive is [the media] completely exploited this person, this young police officer who they obviously didn’t care anything about. They saw him as a toy to exploit his death for purely political ends in ways that we now know were a complete and utter lie.

- Glenn Greenwald, Fox News, talking about how the media lied about Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick being killed on January 6

MORE QUOTES

Let’s be clear about reparations— the theory is that we have to pay great-greatgreat-great-great-great-great grandsons and granddaughters, eight generations of people who were enslaved 150, 160 years ago, and I believe we’ve paid those reparations. I think 330,000 white Union soldiers were killed in the Civil War and another 30,000 Blacks. Those were pretty strong reparations.

– Dick Morris, Newsmax

The messaging on this has been horrific. The message should be “get a vaccine because it’s good for you to do it. It works. You’re not going to have to be doing anything like, abnormally. You can live your life.” I mean that has got to be what the message is. Unfortunately, I think the message has been very muddled. When you tell people, “Oh yeah, yeah, this important. Go get the vaccine,” but then you’ve still got to social distance, you can’t do this, you can’t do that, you can’t eat in a restaurant. Some of the people are still saying that kind of stuff…. My view is, if you get a vaccine – vaccines are effective – you’re immune, so act immune.

– Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla)

It took me a few weeks, March and into April, to get enough data to say OK, you know, we’re not doing Fauciism. We’re gonna make sure our state’s open. We’re gonna get the kids back into school, and we’ll just focus our protection on elderly people.

- Ibid., Fox News

115% of mothers with young children left their jobs in 2020 because of childcare responsibilities.

- Tweet by Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers

We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) inciting violence at a Minnesota protest before one of the protestors fired shots at National Guard troops nearby

We have got to fight for justice. I am very hopeful, and I hope that we are going to get a verdict that will say guilty, guilty, guilty. I don’t know whether it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s first degree.

- Ibid.

I’ll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned.

- The judge presiding over the Derek Chauvin trial, responding to the defense team’s request for a mistrial based on Rep. Waters’ threats

The irony of what Congresswoman Waters did, she borrowed the playbook of the Ku Klux Klan from the 192os, the 1930s. They would stand outside of courtrooms and they would threaten violence if any juror would ever acquit a black person or convict a white person. Now we’re seeing exactly the opposite –we are seeing mobs outside the courthouse and we’re seeing members of Congress just like the Klan had governors and senators and very prominent public officials demanding verdicts in particular cases, and now we have a member of Congress demanding a verdict in the case.

- Attorney Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax