Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

I joked with people and I said, “I’m going to shock the world, I’m going to beat this man.” I was saying it, but really kind of joking. Because what chance did a person like me really stand against this man? He’s literally the second-most powerful person in the state of New Jersey.

- Republican Edward Durr, a commercial truck driver who spent a total of $153 on his campaign, talking to NJ.com after defeating Democrat Stephan Sweeney who was the longest-tenured Senate president in New Jersey history

I’m just a simple man. Literally just like the song.

- Ibid.

Listen, I’m a mother of four. I delivered one of my children in the front seat of my truck. Because as a mom of four, we got things to do. Ain’t nobody got time for two and a half months of maternity leave. We have a world to save here.

- Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), on Fox News, mocking Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for taking paternity leave during a supply chain crisis

Being happy and smiling a lot, red wine, and keeping fit with yoga.

- Eileen Ash, a former international cricket player from Norwich, U.K., at her 110th birthday celebration last week, talking about her secret to longevity

President Biden announced yesterday that more than 70 countries would join the U.S. in a pledge to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent by the end of the decade. Yeah, but not Russia or China, right? That’s like saying: “Hey, great news — I got the whole neighborhood to agree to stop murdering, except for Hacksaw Dave and Larry the Strangler. Sleep tight, everybody!”

— Seth Meyers

It’s not true… That’s not gonna happen

- President Biden on Wednesday when asked about a report that his administration is preparing to give thousands of illegal immigrants $450,000 each to settle a claim brought on their behalf by the ACLU

If it saves taxpayer dollars and puts the disastrous history of the previous administration’s use of zero tolerance and family separation behind us, the president is perfectly comfortable with the Department of Justice settling with the individuals and families who are currently in litigation with the U.S. government.

- White House Deputy Press Secretary Jean-Pierre the very next day, disclosing that the report is, in fact, true and Pres. Biden does support it

Why is the price of agricultural products – when I go to the store, why is it higher? What, like for example, if I had, if we were all going out and having lunch together and I said let’s ask whoever’s at the next table no matter how, whatever restaurant we’re in, have them explain the supply chain to us. You think they’d understand what we’re talking about. They’re smart people. The supply chain. But why’s everything backed up? Well, it’s backed up because the people’s supplies or materials that end up being on our kitchen table or in our, in, in, in our, our fam, our, our life. Guess what? They close those plants because they have COVID.

- Pres. Biden at the White House “explaining” the supply chain issues

Colin immediately went down on one knee and sang the entire “Mamma Mia” to a very amused foreign minister from Sweden and to a gobsmacked U.S. delegation — who’d never seen anything like it.

- Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, reminiscing this week about Colin Powell, who seemed to be a man of hidden talents

I’m destroying all of the narratives about race. Look at me, I am a heartbeat away from the governorship in case anything happens to the governor. And how are you going to tell me then I’m a victim? And I didn’t do anything special to get here except stay in school and study. I took advantage of the opportunities that are available here in America. I wasn’t born here. This is not my culture, not my country. But it allowed me – America allowed me – to come and do for myself and for my family.

– Newly elected Virginia Lt. Gov.-Elect Winsome Sears, an African American Republican taking on the race narrative by the left that Republicans are racists, in a Fox News interview What went wrong is just stupid wokeness. Don’t just look at Virginia and New Jersey. Look at Long Island, look at Buffalo, look at Minneapolis, even look at Seattle, Washington. I mean, this “defund the police” lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln’s name off of schools…some of these people need to go to a “woke” detox center or something.

- Long-time Democratic strategist James Carville explaining why Democrats lost around the country on Election Day

I think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100 percent super-moderated campaign that does not excite, speak to, or energize a progressive base, and frankly we weren’t even really invited to contribute on that race.

- Democrat Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez giving her explanation as to why Democrats lost in Virginia

I was just a bit nervous. I worried that I could have a fire at home that would burn it up, that the ticket’s expiration date might come up, and even had just a bit of doubt that it was really real.

- An unidentified retired utility worker from Wicomico County after winning $2 million on a scratch-off, making it the second time that he won $2 million on a scratch-off, according to a press release by the Maryland Lotto

Vax

-The Oxford Dictionary’s 2021 “Word of the Year”

MORE QUOTES

I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now, so before my final nail gets put in my cancel-culture casket, I think I’d like to set the record straight on some of the blatant lies that are out there about myself right now…. I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body, not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something. Health is not a one-size-fits-all for everybody.

- Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rogers on The Pat McAfee Show, after he was outed for not being vaccinated

It only took me 40 years.

- King Harald of Norway, age 84, talking about getting a cellphone during the pandemic

I owe an apology to Jack Ciattarelli’s campaign and to Phil Murphy’s campaign for that matter because inaccurate public polling can have an impact on fundraising and voter mobilization efforts. But most of all, I owe an apology to the voters of New Jersey for information that was at the very least misleading.

- Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, apologizing for his poll showing that New Jersey Gov. Murphey had an 11-point lead over his Republican opponent Jack Ciattarelli, after Murphey defeated Ciattarelli by less than 1-point

I got the COVID-19 vaccine today! My wing is feeling a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy!

- Tweet by Sesame Street’s Big Bird

Government propaganda…for your 5 year old!

- Tweet in response by Sen. Ted Cruz

The kids love going shopping in it.

- Merlin Batchelor, of England, speaking about his new car – an armored personnel carrier, which looks just like a tank We at the Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) are saddened beyond words by the events that transpired at the football game Friday between Inglewood and Morningside high schools.

– From a statement by the Inglewood Unified School District after Inglewood defeated Morningside High School 106-0 in their football game

Many years ago, I took a trip to Israel, and I met this very wise, pious, religious man. He taught me many lessons not about religion but about life, about morality, about honor.

- Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ chairman emeritus, while trying to deter employees from unionizing before relating a story about how people shared blankets in concentration camps