Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

These woke CEOs saddle their high horse and ride it hard in America. You talk about Nike with Colin Kaepernick. But when they get into China, they kowtow before the powers that be. And they never bring up anything like China’s genocide against its own people, or crushing Hong Kong’s autonomy, or unleashing this plague on the United States. All they care about in China is money.

- Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) talking about the double-standard of woke corporations

I guess Nike’s attitude towards genocide in China is “Just do it!”

- Ibid.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) loosened masks requirements a bit more last week to allow the vaccinated to go barefaced in outdoor transportation settings. It’s another small step toward normalcy, but some Americans seem unwilling to forgo the face covering even in the face of the new guidance.

In so many cases over the past year, masks have been less a protective tool and more a symbol of virtue.

This is a problem. Tools are easily discarded. When the job is done, you put away the hammer or saw without a second thought. Not so with symbols. Symbols become a part of us, a part of our identity that mingles with our self-worth.

- David Marcus, Fox News Immigrant parents come to this country, I’m sure they were nice people, send their daughter to Harvard, and that’s what you get? It really is. Our system produces the worst people. They’re not the worst people when they start. Most people are decent when they start. But our institutions at the top of the society produce people like that, and that’s the problem.

– Tucker Carlson, Fox News, talking about MSNBC’s Joy Reid who posited that any parent who objects to their kids being taught critical race theory (which maintains that all white people, including kids, are racists) are racists

Confidence in the mayor is very, very important. Confidence in the leadership of the mayor and the competence of the mayor is very important. And I think with a new mayor, you’re gonna see both an increase in the confidence in leadership and increase in the competence of the management of New York City.

– Gov. Cuomo going after his political rival, Mayor de Blasio, after the NYC Democratic primaries were held

As a world-renowned and legendary professional basketball team, we petition Commissioner Adam Silver, the NBA governors and the powers that be to grant The Original Harlem Globetrotters an NBA franchise. Not now, but right now!

- From a letter by the Harlem Globetrotters petitioning NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to allow them to become an NBA franchise

Didn’t the great Scottie Pippen refuse to go in the game for the last second shot because he was in his feelings his coach drew up the play for a better shooter??

- Nets star Kevin Durant tweet responding to former Chicago Bulls all-star and Jordan sidekick Scottie Pippen who criticized him for not being a team player

I have spent much time reflecting, reading and listening. The truth is that my commenting on a book that documents the extreme Far-Left and their activities is in no way an endorsement of the equally repugnant Far-Right. The truth is that reporting on extremism at the great risk of endangering oneself is unquestionably brave. I also feel that my previous apology in a small way participates in the lie that such extremism does not exist, or worse, is a force for good.

So why leave the band?

On the eve of his leaving to the West, Solzhenitsyn published an essay titled “Live Not By Lies.” I have read it many times now since the incident at the start of March. It still profoundly stirs me.

“And he who is not sufficiently courageous to defend his soul — don’t let him be proud of his ‘progressive’ views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a distinguished figure or a general. Let him say to himself: I am a part of the herd and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and kept warm.”

For me to speak about what I’ve learnt to be such a controversial issue will inevitably bring my bandmates more trouble. My love, loyalty and accountability to them cannot permit that. I could remain and continue to self-censor but it will erode my sense of integrity. Gnaw my conscience. I’ve already felt that beginning.

- Winston Marshall, banjo player for Mumford & Sons, in an essay in Medium, explaining why he is permanently leaving the band after he faced heated public backlash in March for tweeting positively about a book which exposes the Far-Left as dangerous radicals

I feel like it was a set-up, and they did it on purpose. I was [upset], to be honest.

- Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry who disgracefully had a temper tantrum when the U.S. National Anthem began playing during her medal ceremony in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on Saturday The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon. Those who say the blood of the, the blood of patriots, you know, and all this stuff about how we’re going to have to move, move against the government, well, the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots. What’s happened is that there never been…if you want…if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.

- President Joe Biden talking about guns at a press conference about rising crime rates

Why has Chicago become the world’s largest outdoor shooting range? Why is it safer to walk through the streets of Mogedisho than it is to walk through the streets of New York City? Crime is not up, as the president seems to indicate, because of inadequate background checks. Crime is up because many members of the president’s own party believe in defunding the police; they ran on it and in many cities, they’ve done it. Crime is up because they want to replace police with social workers. Crime is up because many Democrats think that when a cop shoots a criminal, it is always the cop’s fault, but when a criminal shoots a cop, it’s always the gun’s fault.

– Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on Fox News

Remember how people panicked when they couldn’t find toilet paper? Imagine how they are going to feel when you can’t find a cop.

- Ibid.

It’s not my first trip. I’ve been to the border many times.

– Vice President Kamala Harris, when asked by a reporter why it took her so long to visit the U.S.-Mexico border