NOTABLE QUOTABLES (May 25, 2023)

FOR THE RECORD

“The truth is that the Treasury has more than ample revenue coming in each month to avoid defaulting on the debt, and Mr. Biden doesn’t need to distort the meaning of the 14th Amendment to do it. … What the 14th Amendment doesn’t allow is the claim by many progressives that the President can issue new debt without the consent of Congress. Merely because Congress has approved new spending doesn’t mean the President can issue new debt on his own authority to finance it.” – The Wall Street Journal

“When are the perpetrators and advancers of the Russia collusion hoax going to confess error and apologize for the damage they have done? To judge from initial responses – and non-responses – to the Durham Report, the likely answer is never. Yet these same people can be heard lamenting that many of their fellow citizens don’t trust long-established government institutions and lack respect or even interest in long-established journalistic outlets. It doesn’t seem to cross their minds that by perpetrating and prolonging the Russia collusion hoax, these institutions and outlets have proven that they are willing to disregard rules of fundamental fairness and to lie and mislead to produce election outcomes to their liking. In so doing, they forfeit, quite possibly for many years, the trust of a large number of their fellow citizens.”  – Michael Barone

“The real threat to our Republic is the corruption of federal law enforcement and the arrogant abuse of power that House Republicans are now exposing. It’s a Deep State that thinks it gets to decide what truth is and who our leaders are. America can survive riots. But we cannot survive corruption that undermines the rule of law, shreds our Constitution, makes a mockery of our elections and turns the ‘land of the free’ into a police state.” – Gary Bauer 

BRAYING JENNIES

“One of the issues that Tim Scott has is that he seems to think, ‘Because I made it, everyone can make it.’ Ignoring, again, the fact that he is the exception and not the rule. And until he is the rule, then he can stop talking about systemic racism.” – “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin

“[Scott is] talking about victimhood and personal responsibility as if people aren’t taking responsibility for their own actions. It seems to me that the Republican Party has a real racism problem.” – Sunny Hostin

“[Scott is] like Clarence Thomas — black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African-Americans face in this country and other minorities. He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence. And that’s why they’re Republicans.” – “The View” co-host Joy Behar

“[Scott] has Clarence Thomas syndrome.” – “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg

UPRIGHT

“Think of that child born today that got a $94,000 bill. How can you sit there and say, ‘Well, I’m going to spend more of their money’? Let’s stop that. Let’s make this economy stronger. Let’s take care of the debt that we acquired, because we have a responsibility to pay it.” – House Speaker Kevin McCarthy