Notable Quotes

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

It went from a peaceful march, calling out the names, to all of a sudden, bang, “How dare you fly the American flag?” They said take it down. They wouldn’t leave. They said they’re going to come back and burn the house down.

- The New York Times reporting from Seattle and quoting a local resident talking about what happened when BLM rioters came into her neighborhood

For the record, my parents haven’t even been let back in yet themselves, to sort through what is left of their lives, but these two felt the need to go traipsing around my parents‘ property without permission. I guess those property taxes my parents pay allow politicians to do this! Private property doesn’t exist in California anymore!

- Trampas Patten of Fresno County , California, after California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Kamala Harris went to her parents’ burned-out home for a photo-op while examining damage from a forest fire

It’s a legitimate question, but let me tell you why I’m not going to answer that question. Let’s say I answer, then the whole debate’s gonna be about what Biden said or didn’t say. Biden said he would or wouldn’t. The discussion should be about why [Trump] is moving in a direction that is totally inconsistent with what the Founders wanted.

We’re going to have to blow up the entire system.

- CNN anchor John Lemon, responding to the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the news that President Trump will exercise his Constitutional right to name a replacement

You know what we’re going to have to do?... You’re going to have to get rid of the electoral college because the minority in this country get to decide who our judges are and who our president is. Is that fair?

- Ibid.

There is no difference from what Donald Trump is preaching, from what Adolf Hitler preached in the early ‘30s. Let’s just say it once and for all.

- Leftist Donny Deutsch on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”

…moron, pathetic pig, swine, punk…, LOOSER

– How Ellesia Blaque referred to President Trump in one of her numerous Trump-hating tweets in 2019 (she was a questioner in ABC’s town hall with President Trump last week and was noted by the network to be “an undecided voter”)

It’s estimated 200 million people have died probably by the time I finish this talk.

- Joe Biden overestimating U.S. corona deaths by 199,800,000, at a campaign event this week

I might even go so far as to say that this face mask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.

- Robert Redfield, head of the Centers for Disease Control, making an incredulous claim while testifying in Congress last week

All throughout this quarantine, I started experiencing emotions I’ve never felt before… I think it’s huge to talk. I think it’s huge to get help. And it saves lives… If I wouldn’t have talked about those things to the people I did, I wouldn’t have realized my friends and a lot more people go through them – and they are as common as they are.

- Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dac Prescott talking about his mental health challenges over the past few months

I have deep compassion for clinical depression, but when it comes to the quarterback of an NFL team, you know this better than I do, it’s the ultimate leadership position in sports, am I right about that? You are commanding an entire franchise … And they’re all looking to you to be their CEO, to be in charge of the football team. Because of all that, I don’t have sympathy for him going public with “I got depressed” and “I suffered depression early in COVID to the point that I couldn’t even go work out.” Look, he’s the quarterback of America’s team.

- ESPN’s Skip Bayless responding to Prescott’s comments

The vaccine should be tested on politicians first. If they survive, the vaccine is safe. If they don’t, the country is safe.

– Polish author Monika Wisniewska writing about the pending corona vaccine

I was given limited information on the situation regarding Antwon, and I was unaware of the whole story surrounding his death and what transpired…

- Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey explaining why he took the name of a “police shooting victim” off of his helmet

The people pick the President; the President nominates the Justice. That is how it works.

- Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), ironically attempting to argue on Twitter that President Trump should NOT get to nominate a justice for the Supreme Court before the elections

Those who attack America’s exceptional environmental record while ignoring China’s rampant pollution are not interested in the environment, they only want to punish America and I won’t stand for it

- President Trump addressing the UN General Assembly, in a virtual appearance

We must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague unto the world – China.

- Ibid.

Police Violence Victims’ Monument.

– The new name that the Baltimore City Council gave to a Columbus statue near a memorial for fallen police officers

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being the president in his last year.

- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in 2016, urging the Senate to confirm Justice Scalia’s replacement during the last year of the Obama administration (even though the Democrats didn’t have the majority of the Senate)

In the final days of her life, I asked my grandmother if there was anything she wanted to say to the public, to anyone, that wasn’t already out there. I pulled out my computer and she dictated the following sentence to me. She said: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” I read it back to her and she was very happy with that. When I asked, “Is that it? Is there anything else you’d like to say?” she said, “The rest of my work is a matter of public record.” So that’s all she wanted to add.

– Justice Ginsburg’s granddaughter recalling her grandmother’s “dying wish”

I want to dedicate this fight to all the first responders, all the military out there. This world would not be safe without you guys, you keep us safe, and not these woke athletes. I’m sick of these spineless cowards like LeBron James.

- Tweet by UFC fighter Colby Covington after his victory over Tyron Woodley this week