March 19, 2026

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, John Fetterman, Allen West, Rich Lowry, and more.

Dumb & Dumber

“Once again, Trump is targeting women. He knows that married women don’t commit ‘fraud’ by taking their husbands’ last names. But his ‘SAVE’ Act charges them anyway.” —Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

“Until I hear someone tell me that this man, President Trump, will actually allow us to have a free and fair election, there is zero trust here and I cannot trust that he won’t try and steal it — again.” —Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

“Donald Trump has initiated all of these hostilities, killing American service members and innocent Iranians alike, and for no reason.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)

“The data shows that Donald Trump is one of the most pro-drug-trafficking presidents in modern-day history.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)

“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. … The first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home.” —New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul

Friendly Fire

“We’re making people hurt.” —Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) on the Democrats’ DHS shutdown

“You asked me earlier, ‘What’s the leader of the Democratic Party right now?’ I would say it’s TDS. … [Trump] could come out for ‘Ice Cream and Lazy Sundays’ and now suddenly Democrats would hate it. We would want to vote it down.” —Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA)

“One name that often doesn’t come from my side is Laken Riley. I grieve for Renee Good and I grieve for Alex Pretti, but I also deeply, deeply grieve for Laken Riley and [her] family.” —John Fetterman

Re: The Left

“I will admit, our Democrat colleagues should be experts in Jim Crow, because it was Democrat politicians who passed the Jim Crow laws. It was Democrat politicians who founded the Ku Klux Klan. It was Democrat politicians for decade after decade who enforced discrimination, separate but equal, poll taxes, and a host of other laws designed to prevent African Americans from voting.” —Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

“Once again, the Marxist leftists are proving that our Constitution is just a piece of paper: antiquated and outdated, when it comes to their ideological agenda. We already know that they disavow the right to free speech. For them, it is all about accepted speech.” —Allen West

For the Record

“One of the more bizarre arguments being made by people against Operation Epic Fury is that Iran was not an ‘imminent’ threat. To which my answer is…so what? Assume that was true, for a moment. Did you WANT it to be an imminent threat? What kind of standard is that?” —David Strom

“There’s no one who is going to bail us out, because we have a world-class navy whereas our allies don’t — even if they wanted to help. … The fact of the matter, though, is that allied countries aren’t going to think it’s possible to reopen the Strait [of Hormuz] if we haven’t managed to do it on our own.” —Rich Lowry

And Last…

“Notice that all the men of great wealth, and almost all of America’s other super wealthy throughout history — the Vanderbilts, J.P. Morgans, Andrew Carnegies and Henry Fords — built spectacularly successful companies out of nothing, and even invented whole new industries. They didn’t inherit the money. They earned it themselves.” —Stephen Moore

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