NOTABLE QUOTABLES (December 14, 2023)

THE BIG LIES

“$400,000 a year … is way above what I ever made till I became president.” – Joe Biden (“In the first two years after leaving office in 2017, Biden made $15.6 million – including with ‘help’ from Hunter.”)

“It is a complete farce and a sham for Republicans to go forward with an impeachment investigation because of Hunter Biden’s wrongdoing that has no connection to Joe Biden.” – Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY)

“Republicans are asking for very severe, very draconian immigration policy changes.” – Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)

“I feel like the underlying trend lines in inflation are good. We’ve seen grocery prices come down. We’ve seen prices at the pump come down. We’ve seen some of the core areas moving back down to pre-pandemic levels.” – National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard

A BLIND SQUIRREL FINDS A NUT

“Elite universities … have gone from being centers of excellence to institutions pushing political agendas. … Good intentions have morphed into a dogmatic ideology and turned these universities into places where the pervasive goals are political and social engineering, not academic merit. … They should abandon this long misadventure into politics, retrain their gaze on their core strengths, and rebuild their reputations as centers of research and learning.” – CNN’s Fareed Zakaria

FOR THE RECORD

“Foreign entities and governments were funneling the cash through Hunter Biden in order to buy influence with his father, Joe. And that’s the real point, folks. Don’t lose sight of that key fact. This really isn’t about Hunter Biden. Hunter was merely a conduit for Joe Biden’s corrupt influence peddling scheme.”  – Gary Bauer

“The Civil Rights Movement was a fight for freedom. Unfortunately, too many Black Americans have used their freedom to choose the government plantation. Now this is a challenge not just for Blacks but for the whole nation.”  – Star Parker

“As secretary of state, MIT canceled my campus speech about the CCP because it ‘risked offending’ Chinese students. Now these schools justify rampant antisemitism because of a ‘commitment’ to free speech?” – Mike Pompeo