The Patriot Post® · Friday Short Cuts

Insight: “The bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness.” —Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)

Food for thought: “If Barack Obama handed his foreign policy to an outside lawyer who bought conspiracy theories he’d heard on MSNBC talk shows and had his chief of staff go through parsing over what was or was not a quid pro quo and sent the next G-7 summit to a property he owned and had to send his Vice President to get the Turks to stop an invasion he let happen the GOP would be in histrionics right now demanding impeachment.” —Erick Erickson

For the record: “I’m honored to be considered [overrated] by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress.” —former Defense Secretary James Mattis

Touché: “I earned my spurs on the battlefield; Donald Trump earned his spurs from the doctor.” —James Mattis

Braying jackass: “It is hard outside of the Third Reich to find another example in modern human history of a leader, of a modern democracy, saying that one people of one religion are inherently dangerous or disqualified or defective. And yet that’s what our president did. The same president who described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals, though they commit crimes at a far lower rate than anyone that is born in this country.” —Beto O'Rourke

Alpha jackass: “Don’t get too cocky traitor. They showed up for JFK too.” —actor Tom Arnold hinting at assassination of President Donald Trump

Non compos mentis: [Dianne Feinstein is] the reason we finally got the assault-weapons ban, eliminating magazines with multiple rounds.“ —Joe Biden

The BIG Lie: "I entered as one of the poorest men in Congress, left one of the poorest men in government, in Congress and as vice president. I made no money while I was in there other than my salary.” —Joe Biden

And last… “Venezuela on the UN Human Rights Council is like a murderer serving as his own jury. Disgusting.” —Liz Wheeler