October 17, 2019

Thursday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from Victor Davis Hanson, Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden, and more.

Insight: “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?” —Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

The bottom line: “The chief problem is that the Kurds are our friends but not our legal allies. In contrast, the Turks are not really our friends anymore but are legal, treaty-bound allies.” —Victor Davis Hanson

For the record: “You’ve got millionaires arguing with millionaires over who hates the millionaires the most.” —Mike Rowe on the Democrat debate

Ouch: “You have a better chance of getting a fair justice system in China than you do in Speaker Pelosi’s movement here inside the House.” —House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Friendly fire: “[Elizabeth Warren] was more specific and forthcoming about the number of selfies she’s taken than about how [Medicare for All] is going to be funded.” —Pete Buttigieg in reference to Tuesday night’s debate

Hell hath frozen over: “Let’s put this in perspective: if you eliminate every single solitary soldier, tank, satellite, nuclear weapon, eliminate the Pentagon and it would only pay for 4 months of Medicare for All. 4 months. Where do the other 8 months come from? Your paycheck.” —Joe Biden

Good luck with that: “I think just as in any law that is not followed or flagrantly abused there have to be consequences or else there is no respect for the law. So in that case I think there would be a visit by law enforcement to recover that firearm and make sure that it is purchased, bought back, so that it cannot be potentially used against somebody else.” —Beto O'Rourke

Who needs free speech anyway? “[Trump] has lost his privileges and [his Twitter account] should be taken down…. [Social media outlets] are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation. And that has to stop.” —Sen. Kamala Harris

And last… “Kamala Harris owns a gun — but she doesn’t want you to own one. Bernie Sanders flies on private jets — but doesn’t want you to. Barack Obama is a multimillionaire — but doesn’t want you to be one. Elizabeth Warren picks her own doctors — but doesn’t want you to. See the pattern?” —Charlie Kirk

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