Short Cuts
In their own words — the quotes of the day, newest first.
Friday Short Cuts
"If you can't debate hard issues honestly, with honor, with integrity, how do we keep a civil society?" —Justice Clarence Thomas
Thursday Short Cuts
"Today, when we talk about boldly going where no man has gone before, we mean the ladies' bathroom. Progress." —Mark Steyn
Wednesday Short Cuts
Braying Jackass: "It's time for Mattis to give [Trump] the wrong [nuclear] codes." —Al Franken
Tuesday Short Cuts
Alpha Jackass: "Where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him?" —actress Carole Cook
Monday Short Cuts
Narcissist in chief: "When you hear how great the economy is doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started." —Obama
Friday Short Cuts
Alpha Jackass: "[Trump's] right to be paranoid. I mean, just as Stalin had a right to be paranoid and was paranoid." —Neal Katyal
Thursday Short Cuts
Doh! "Pass [single-payer health care] and then figure out how to fund it." —Cynthia Nixon
Wednesday Short Cuts
"The arguments are not the same. We are arguing for a constitutional justice. They are arguing for a left-wing justice." —Andrew Klavan
Tuesday Short Cuts
"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."
Monday Short Cuts
"We paid a price for the way it played out without the red line being enforced by the bombing." —John Kerry
Friday Short Cuts
"Ironically, the easiest way these days to get people to act like Nazis towards a group is to convince people that group is a bunch of Nazis." —Frank Fleming
Thursday Short Cuts
Friendly fire: "I don't talk about impeachment. I think that's the wrong thing for Democrats to do." —Jimmy Carter
Wednesday Short Cuts
"A democracy needs informed citizens if it is to thrive, or ultimately even survive." —Thomas Sowell
Tuesday Short Cuts
Braying Jackass: "I think we are in a crisis that is the third great crisis in American history." —Bill Maher
Monday Short Cuts
Dezinformatsiya: "This is a situation Donald Trump in the end may not win." —Dan Rather
Friday Short Cuts
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it." —Mark Twain
Thursday Short Cuts
It begins: "We should be pushing to postpone the Kavanaugh hearing." —Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Wednesday Short Cuts
"2016: 'RUSSIA!' 2017: 'RUSSIA!!!' 2018: 'told you we'd nail them on campaign finance and tax charges.'" —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
Tuesday Short Cuts
"Evil will proliferate if we do not make war against it with righteous hatred and anger in our hearts." —Matt Walsh
Monday Short Cuts
For the record: "John [Brennan] and his rhetoric have become an issue in and of itself." —former DNI James Clapper