Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

If you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida? I’m standing in your way. If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I’m gonna stand in your way and stand up for the kids in Florida. If you’re trying to restrict people and impose mandates and ruin their jobs and livelihood, if you are trying to lock people down, I am standing in your way. I am standing for the people of Florida.

- Gov. Ron DeSantis responding to Pres. Biden’s criticism of his Covid response

Governor who?... That’s my response.

-Pres. Biden when asked about his response to DeSantis

I’m not surprised that Biden doesn’t remember me. The question is what else has he forgotten?

- Gov. DeSantis in response

By the way, Mr. Former President, my own 60th birthday is coming up in three years, and you, sir, are not … going to want to miss it. Please come. I’d be so honored if you came. I’ll scale me back to make room for you — and Michelle, obviously.

— Stephen Colbert, host of a show which is supposed to be funny, openly begging Barak Obama to attend his upcoming birthday party

I’ll still chase a bargain, and I definitely won’t be paying £6.50 for a bacon roll at the golf club.

- Paul Louise Drake, 47, of Scotland, in a TV interview, after winning approximately $7 million in the UK’s National Lottery

What would motivate a Hasidic rabbi and his followers to leave a Brooklyn enclave where they’ve lived for generations and establish a quickly growing community in Wimauma, Fla., a semi-rural area near Tampa Bay? The same reasons that have led to an unprecedented wave of Orthodox Jewish families moving to South Florida: education choice, low taxes and good governance.

– From a Wall Street Journal article titled, “Why Orthodox Jews Are Leaving Brooklyn for Florida”

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics ended yesterday, and the U.S. athletes brought home 39 gold medals, 41 silvers, 33 bronze, and four new variants.

— Seth Meyers

Well, last night was the closing ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics which, because of Covid, were actually held in 2021, which means it’s only three more years until the 2024 Olympics are postponed to 2027.

– Seth Meyers

This is going to be safe. This is a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd.

– The New York Times White House correspondent Annie Karni on CNN explaining why Obama’s mass-gathering birthday bash did not pose any Covid risks

He lied about contagiousness and while locking down his own country, he was pressuring other countries not to impose travel restrictions and quarantines on arrivals from China. You put those two things together, and there are more, but you put just those two things together, and this shows that this was a deliberate spread of the disease.

– Chinese expert Gordan Chang talking about Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Newsmax

I wonder if the people who printed fake ballots are going to start a vax passport division.

- Jenna Ellis on Twitter

Being unvaccinated and/or unmasked at a large indoor gathering is like literally begging to get COVID. Please don’t do that to yourself, your family or your neighbors.

- Tweet by singer John Legend last week, days before he performed unmasked for an unmasked gathering at Obama’s 60th birthday party

You never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. You can’t take anything with you.

— Dominick Oliverie, owner of famed Dallas sandwich shop Great American Hero, explaining why he is retiring and closing his shop

It’s been a very long week. it’s been a very long five years. I didn’t expect a medal today; I just wanted to go out there and do this for me, and that’s exactly what I did.

- Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, after winning bronze in the balance beam competition

China’s a very important market for us.

- Nike CEO John Donahoe when asked on CNBC why he does not criticize China’s human rights abuses if his company is so vocal about social issues in the U.S.

Well, this is tragic news: Barack Obama’s long-awaited birthday bash has been ruined by climate change as his mansion sank into the sea thanks to global warming. It’s time for us to resist. They can’t arrest all of us. They can’t keep all of your kids home from school. They can’t keep every government building closed, although, I’ve got a long list of ones they might keep closed or might ought to keep closed. We don’t have to accept the mandates, lockdowns and harmful policies of the petty tyrants and bureaucrats. We can simply say, “No, not again!”

- Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

Children are falling behind in school. They are being harmed physically and psychologically by the tactics that you used to keep them from school last year. We will not allow that to happen again.

- Ibid.

What’s up with that? What did I do wrong?

- Quarterback Tom Brady upon being booed when introduced at Peyton Manning’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony