NOTABLE QUOTABLES (May 22, 2025)

THE MEDIA

“We’re not the resistance. We are nobody’s opposition. We’re also nobody’s cheerleader. Our loyalty is to the truth and to a public that deserves to know it.”  – New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger

“In this moment … our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts.” – CBS News’s Scott Pelley 

BOOM!

“We deported gang members. Gang members – including the one you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker and that guy is a gang banger.” – Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Sen. Chris Van Hollen 

FOR THE RECORD

“Why didn’t the American people have a better sense of [Joe Biden’s] health picture? … We can pray for good health but also recognize that if you’re not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn’t be doing the job.” – Vice President JD Vance

“It is sad that Joe Biden has an aggressive, late stage form of Prostate cancer. It’s also very hard to believe that his cancer diagnosis was totally unknown until now.” – Buck Sexton

“If [Biden] wasn’t really president, who or what group of individuals was exercising presidential power? The investigation about these questions should not be dropped simply because the former president is dealing with a serious health challenge.”  – Gary Bauer

“Importing the third world doesn’t turn third-worlders into us, it turns us into the third world.” – Ann Coulter

MAKE AMERICA RESPONSIVE AGAIN

“I heard [this] directly from a member of one of the foreign delegations. I asked him how hopeful their country was when they learned President Trump won the election. He told me that when President Trump won the election, it was like the lights turned on in a dark room. For the past four years, to the rest of the world, America was dark. We were unresponsive. We did not pick up the phone. We did not return calls. All of that has changed.” – White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

AND LAST…

It’s not that the media always lies; it’s just that we know that they are perfectly willing to do so.” – David Strom