The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Short Cuts

Insight: “My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.” —Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)

Upright: “Civility and respect always prevails over harassment and disrespect.” —Rep. Steve Scalise, who was nearly murdered last year by a crazed socialist

Good cop, bad cop, part I: “In the crucial months ahead, we must strive to make America beautiful again. Trump’s daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable. As we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieves unity from sea to shining sea.” —Nancy Pelosi, who recently called a border wall “immoral,” addressing Maxine Waters’s “push back” remark

Good cop, bad cop, part II: “If you disagree with a politician, organize your fellow citizens to action and vote them out of office. No one should call for the harassment of political opponents. That’s not right. That’s not American.” —Chuck Schumer

Revisionist protest: “I have nothing to do with the way people decide to protest. Protest is the democratic way as long as it is peaceful. I believe in peaceful protest. It is guaranteed to you in a democracy.” —Maxine Waters in a message quite different from her harassment diatribe

Alpha Jackass: “If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter — you, not Donald Trump — are standing at the border like Nazis going, ‘You here. You here.’” —MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch

And last… “Immigration issue is hard b/c our sovereignty requires us to have borders. Our history requires us to remember we are all immigrants. Our constitution requires due process. And our Judeo-Christian values requires us to show compassion. No other nation has to balance all that!” —Sen. Marco Rubio