Notable Quotes

from Five Towns Jewish Home - 7-8-21

Portion Control by Cindy Weinberger, MS RD

“Say What?!”

I don’t really care if I’m the youngest...it’s all about getting knowledge for me.

- Belgian student Laurent Simons, 11, who became the second-to-youngest-ever college graduate after obtaining a bachelor’s degree in physics at the University of Antwerp

If a child can play football well, we all think the media attention is great. My son has a different talent. Why should he not be proud of that?

- Simons’ father

We’ve survived this long together because, first of all, we give each other plenty of space to do our own thing.

- Jimmy Carter talking to ABC News after his 75th wedding anniversary

We’re always looking to do things or find things we can do together, like fly fishing and bird watching and just going out to the pond, catch a fish.

- Jimmy’s wife of 75 years, Rosalynn Carter

You know what’s good about this? We’re letting the nation know we can cooperate.

- President Biden, while visiting the site of the Surfside building collapse Let me get this straight? You can be off by 135,000 votes in a New York City mayoral primary alone but if someone loses the White House by less than 45,000 across multiple states in a presidential election you can’t have any questions. Seems legit… if you live in China.

– Tweet by Donald Trump, Jr., after the NY City Board of Elections admitted to erroneously including 135,000 test votes in their counting of the votes after the mayoral primaries

My father raised me with love, loving everyone. He always told me and my siblings to do good, to share everything with others.

- Emilio Flores Márquez, 112, of Puerto Rico, sharing his secret of longevity upon being crowned the oldest man alive by the Guinness Book of World Records last week

The assertion that Twitter is in coordination with any government to suppress speech has no basis in fact whatsoever.

– Statement by Twitter after they faced backlash for suspending a University of Canterbury professor’s account because he poking fun at Chinese President Xi Jinping

When you’re living in a world where 40 million people have been laid off and I’m making $200 million, you won’t get no complaining from me.

– NBA great Shaquille O’Neal responding to LeBron James complaining about the grueling NBA schedule last season

I don’t complain and make excuses, because real people are working their tail off and all we gotta do is train two hours a day and then play a game for two hours at night and make a lot of money…so my thought process is a little different.

If you don’t like hot dogs, you may not care.

- White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki when asked about the White House’s press release that the cost of a cookout this July 4th is down 16 cents from last year, in light of the miniscule savings and otherwise rapid inflation that is taking place

Scientists found that vulnerable people and communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution from firework celebrations

- Tweet by National Geographic

The F.B.I. does not release full statistics until September, but homicide rates in large cities were up more than 30 percent on average last year, and up another 24 percent for the beginning of this year.

-The New York Times

In the aftermath [of George Floyd’s death], some criminologists attributed the spike in homicides to hesitancy among residents to turn to the police for help.

- Ibid.

We are seeing these headlines about percentage increases. Now, I want to say that any amount of harm is unacceptable and too much. But I also want to make sure that this hysteria, you know, that this doesn’t drive a hysteria and that we look at these numbers in context so that we can make responsible decisions about what to allocate in that context.

- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Dem/Socialist-NY)

Gun violence discriminates. The way COVID discriminates, gun violence discriminates: 59% nationally are non-white victims. In New York State, 68% are non-white victims. In New York City, 77% are non-white victims. Black people are 10 times more likely to be victims of gun violence than white people. Latinos are 3.4 times more likely than white people. Gun violence is a major civil rights issue.

– New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo So, the Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal. Equal to what? What men? Only White men? Isn’t it something that they wrote this in 1776 when African Americans were enslaved? They weren’t thinking about us then, but we’re thinking about us now!

- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) in her July 4th message

When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they’re referring to is for White people. This land is stolen land, and Black people still aren’t free.

- Tweet by squad member Rep. Cori Bush, (D-Mo)

I really don’t understand the [Israeli Defense Force’s] involvement in rescue attempts of people tragically crushed under buildings in Miami. Their expertise is crushing buildings with people in them, not rescuing them.

- A retweet by liberal darling and Jew-hater Linda Sarsour

Do not expect those who worship violence and death to understand those who value life. The IDF, Israel’s army, the most moral army in the world, will always stand by our allies in times of need.

- Tweet by Israel’s former U.N. representative Danny Danon in response

Jews were able to make the world remember [the Holocaust], and the whole world bows to them, being afraid of saying one wrong word to them. On our part, we, being tolerant and kind, did not want to hurt anyone’s feelings and let the things down to the point when they have started to hurt us.

- Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko during a memorial service last week for Soviet soldiers who died in World War II

Do you miss me? They miss me. They miss me. I know. They look at their bad ratings, and they’re saying, “We miss this guy.”

- Former President Donald Trump at his rally in Wellington, Ohio – his first rally since the 2020 election

We had great people working for me. We had some real losers too, by the way. But that can happen when I didn’t know too many people. In Washington, I was there 17 times in my life, and all of a sudden, the president of the United States. So we met a couple, but do I know the people? Do I know the good ones? I know the good ones. But we had some really great people.

- Ibid.

Hillary Clinton can complain about the election. By the way, she is the single most unhappy person in the United States because she said, “Why didn’t you do that for me? Why didn’t you create votes for me?”

-Ibid. There has become a thing that’s gone on, especially in this last year, where ideology is more important than art. Ideology trumps art. Ideology trumps individual effort. Ideology trumps good. Ideology trumps entertaining.