The Patriot Post® · Monday Short Cuts

The Gipper: “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere.”

For the record: “When people refer to inflation, they generally have the price of cars, homes and groceries in mind, but I think there are other types of inflation that are even more telling. For instance, during the 1940s, when FDR was waging World War II, his White House staff numbered 100. Today, when Barack Obama is waging war on the U.S. Constitution, his staff numbers 4,000.” —Burt Prelutsky

Upright: “You kind of wonder what kind of glasses some of the Democrats are wearing as they look at that horrible tragedy. … The notion that somehow gun control would have eliminated [the Orlando attack] is just an absolute disconnect.” —former DHS secretary Tom Ridge

Braying Jenny: “This fight isn’t over: The next president has to protect women’s health. Women won’t be ‘punished’ for exercising their basic rights.” —Hillary Clinton on the Supreme Court striking down Texas abortion regulations (She doesn’t hold the same standard for ​actual​ rights enumerated in, say, the Second Amendment.)

Warning shot: “I’m going to be introducing comprehensive immigration reform in those first 100 days and I’m going to be doing everything I can using whatever tools I have as president to remove the fear from families and to stop the raids and the roundups. We’re gonna get to comprehensive immigration reform when I am president.” —Hillary Clinton

Demo-gogues: “I have voted for [an ‘assault’ weapons ban]. But I think there’s a better way to go at the problem and that is limitations on the size of magazines and ammunition clips."—Sen. Tim Kaine

Race bait: "Harsh anti-immigrant sentiment has become normalized and routinized by the Brexit debate, making it simply a fact of British life. And now Leave has won — proving that xenophobia not only is powerful in modern Britain but actually has the ability to shape the course of the country’s entire future.” —Vox’s Zack Beauchamp

And last… “The sad truth is that most of what we call the right and left in this country are reactionaries with no coherent political philosophy.” —Frank Fleming