Insight: “Jobs really come in the productive sector of the economy. The real jobs are where people are producing goods or services which other people will buy. Now, dependent on those people producing those goods, are a lot of others in the public sector. Now if you run up the public sector, you can only do it by draining money out of industry and commerce. But that’s where the jobs are. And one of the reasons why you have to cut public expenditure is to get the money back out of the public sector, into industry and commerce, so that they, in fact, can invest, and improve, and expand; because that’s where the secure jobs are.” —Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

“By all accounts, the threat posed by record inflation to the American people is not ‘transitory’ and is instead getting worse. From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans know the inflation tax is real and D.C. can no longer ignore the economic pain Americans feel every day.” —Senator Joe Manchin

Credit where it’s due: “Initially, I was under the assumption that [Kyle] Rittenhouse was the person who was chasing after Joseph Rosenbaum — that’s how it started. But I was wrong about that.” —"The Young Turks" cohost Ana Kasparian

D'oh! “Former President Barack Obama called on world leaders to save the planet, but he couldn’t quite identify which country he was in. Mr. Obama’s speech Monday at the COP26 climate-change summit is being mocked for his reference to host Scotland as part of the ‘Emerald Isles,’ which is a nickname for Ireland. ‘Since we’re in the Emerald Isles here let me quote the Bard, William Shakespeare,’ Mr. Obama said. … Observers pointed out Mr. Obama actually committed two gaffes in the same breath. Shakespeare is considered the bard of England — yet another country. Scotland’s bard is poet Robert Burns.” —David Boyer

Hot air: “Climate action is not just a moral imperative: it’s also an economic imperative. Investing in our clean energy future leads not only to good-paying jobs and economic recovery, but to making the world a better place for future generations.” —Joe Biden

Facepalm: “I’m hoping we can get back to the place where there’s more civility in politics. I really mean it.” —Joe “President Disunity” Biden

Missing context: “Elon Musk has lost $50 billion this week as Tesla shares plunged.” —Axios (“He didn’t really lose $50 billion, but this is a good illustration of why the idea of taxing unrealized gains is so ludicrous.” —Jonah Goldberg)

Burn, Loot, Murder (BLM): “If [Mayor-elect Eric Adams] thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people.” —Black Lives Matter of Greater New York head Hawk Newsome

Race bait I/lack of self-awareness: “I think I know why Kamala’s ratings are low, besides sexism and racism, which are the obvious ones.” —Jimmy Kimmel (“Maybe he should have her jump on a trampoline wearing a bikini?” —Noam Blum)

Race bait II/The BIG Lie: “Ultimately, [Glenn Youngkin’s] campaign settled on a game plan that seemed to resonate deeply with white voters in Virginia: targeting school lesson plans that address inequality and social justice. Youngkin adopted the conservative strategy of falsely grouping these lesson plans under the label of ‘critical race theory,’ and he promised to ban such teachings ‘on day one' if elected. Critical race theory is a college-level field of study that’s not taught in Virginia K-12 schools, but it’s become a catchall phrase for intellectually lazy people — many of them white — who want to stigmatize any discussion about American racism.” —MSNBC’s Ja'han Jones in a piece titled, “Glenn Youngkin’s victory proves white ignorance is a powerful weapon.”

Grand delusions: “The inflation we’re seeing is not … some mysterious affliction that’s descended on the economy. It’s the predictable product of the economy’s rapid recovery, and its costs have been offset, to a large degree, by robust wage growth and government policies.” —MSNBC columnist James Surowiecki in a piece headlined, “How Covid became the unlikely hero of our inflation crisis.”

And last… “Inflation is now at 6.2%, which represents a huge tax increase on the working class. Joe Biden is a much worse version of Jimmy Carter & the idea that the government spending trillions more is going to make inflation lower, which is what they are arguing, is absolute insanity.” —Clay Travis