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No, the national liberal media won’t print that or air it or post it. Better to get your news directly from the President. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.
— Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), on the House floor criticizing the media for not reporting President Trump’s positive attributes.
I will just say this: John Lewis ought to look at history. It was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, it was Rutherford B. Hayes and Ulysses S. Grant who fought against Jim Crow laws. A simple thank you would suffice.
— Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), asserting “that the NAACP should apologize to white America, making the comment just hours after he weighed in on the president-elect’s Twitter beef with a civil rights icon, saying U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) should be grateful,” the Portland Press Herald reports.
Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. He’s playing the American public for suckers: He gets a free ride to the White House and all we get is a lousy hat.
You know what? The fact that somebody can dot the i’s and cross the t’s on a foreign leader’s geographic location then allows them to put our military in harm’s way.
— Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, defending his lack of knowledge of world affairs and suggesting that foreign policy expertise, or even an understanding of where international leaders are from, is what leads to military conflict, Politico reports.
I guess I’m having an Aleppo moment.
— Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, after he struggled to name a single foreign leader when asked who his favorite was during an MSNBC town hall, NBC News reports.
We should not have a multicultural society. When you create pockets of isolation — and in some places the process of assimilation has been retarded because they’ve slowed down — it’s wrong. It limits people’s aspirations.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by ABC News.
It’s like Pat Robertson going to a nudist colony — peculiar and not going to get the results that they hope for.
— Virginia state Sen. William Stanley (R), quoted by the Washington Post, on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ speech today at Liberty University.
I think we can send a message and say, you want to be in America, A, you’d better be here legally or you’re out of here; B, when you’re here, let’s speak American. I mean that’s what’s — let’s speak English and that’s a kind of a unifying aspect of the nation is the language that is understood by all.
There is no war on women – there may be a war on what’s inside of women, but there is no war on women in this country.
— Ben Carson, quoted by The Hill.
If I were, not president, but if I were king of America, I would abolish all teachers’ lounges, where they sit together and worry about ‘woe is us.’
— Gov. John Kasich, quoted by the Columbus Dispatch.
