Notable Quotes

“Say What?!”

As we recognize that Covid-19 is not a deadly or even severe disease for the vast majority of responsible Americans, we can stop agonizing over “cases” and focus on those who are hospitalized or at risk of dying.

- Tweet by Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, who in the past excoriated Republicans for taking a measured approach to Covid, including tweeting several months ago: “DeSantis downplays rising Covid-19 numbers ... that’ll work... says no one”

Now that Joe Biden is about to have an all-time Covid case high set one year into his administration, his allies are suddenly arguing cases don’t matter and it’s time to get back to normal for most people. Anyone with a functional brain has been arguing this since last summer.

- Clay Travis, tweeting in response

Bad ideas will be abandoned eventually, but only after their believers have caused irreversible damages.

- Helen Raleigh, tweeting in response

I’ve always been a cockeyed optimist. I got it from my mom. I’m gonna stick with it.

- From a statement by actress Betty White – who died this week several weeks before her 100th birthday – shared last week with Fox News Digital via her publicist If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I’d be a pretty doggone wealthy man, let me tell ya.

- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when asked about Rep. Ocasio Cortez (Dem/Socialist-NY) seen around Miami Beach partying maskless over the past week

I could tell you, I mean, there probably be about half a dozen governors who had restrictions on their people and then were spotted at various points in Florida. Some of it’s been public. Some of it’s not been public.

- Ibid.

I guess I should’ve been at the beach in Delaware, right, and then they would’a been really happy with that.

- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis when asked about the media reporting that he has been MIA in the second half of December, before explaining that he put out a daily schedule of events but since he had no press conferences, the media accused him of being “missing”

We don’t just want to have, with Mars, flags, and footprints and then not come back for a half century like we did with the moon. In order to pass a very important great filter, we need to be a multi-planet species.

- SpaceX founder Elon Musk on the Lex Fridman Podcast stating that he will land a person on Mars within a decade

I think that’s what life is about. I mean, you need to do what makes you happy.

- Sebastián “Ardilla” Álvarez, talking to CNN, after flying at 180 mph into and out of the 656-foot-wide crater of an active volcano in Chile, becoming the first person to do such a stunt

There’s a lot of reason to be hopeful in 2020. But for G-d’s sake, please take advantage of what is available.

- Pres. Biden at his first Covid briefing of 2022

2021 is pulling out all the tricks…including raining fish in Texarkana today. And no, this isn’t a joke.

- Facebook post by the city of Texarkana, Texas, to alert residents that it was literally “raining animals”

Animal rain is a phenomenon that occurs when small water animals like frogs, crabs, and small fish are swept up in waterspouts or drafts that occur on the surface of the earth. They are then rained down at the same time as the rain.

- Ibid.

The first 100,000 [deaths in the U.S.] were probably not stoppable. And after that, I think there was clearly bungling.

- Dr. Amesh Adalja, of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, talking about the U.S. Covid death rate

We have to address the fact that we have got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, paying for groceries, and are – need solutions to it. So let’s talk about that. Short-term solution includes what we need to do around the supply chain, right? So, we went to the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Savannah, Georgia, and said, “Hey, guys, no more five days a week, eight hours a day; 24/7, let’s move the products because people need their product – they need what they need.” We’re dealing with it in terms of the long-term. And that’s about what we need to do to pass Build Back Better. It strengthens our economy.

- Vice Pres. Harris’s answer when asked about inflation in a CBS interview

Cloth masks have no value other than theater

- Sen. Rand Paul, M.D. (R-KY) on 710 WABC We’re ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first-year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years. Let’s keep the progress going.

- Tweet by President Biden marking the end of 2021

I was sitting in my kitchen yesterday and there’s a sunroom off the kitchen. My wife was there with her sister and her good friend named Maryanne and she was saying, “Do you realize it’s over $5.00 for a pound of hamburger meat?” $5.00. You know, a pound of beef today costs 5 bucks compared to less than 4 bucks before the pandemic.

- President Biden during his first event of 2022

Stop. It’s a fake religion created by a psychopath. You aren’t bringing in new voters; you are turning them away. People are tired of pandering and [baloney].

– Tweet by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R- GA) after a Republican group sent out a “Happy Kwanzaa” message

Assuming that you are (a) bit curious as to why I am doing this, the reason is straightforward: the excellent educational opportunity available to me – which I took full advantage of at CCNY – gave me the basis to continue to develop.

- From a letter by an anonymous donor who mailed a box containing $180,000 in cash to City College of New York in Harlem

If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda.

- Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers questioning the science behind Covid-19 mandates on the “The Pat McAfee Show”