‘My fist meal as a fugitive’: Quotes of the week

Finally, President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci team up with pop star Olivia Rodrigo to encourage young people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Here are the quotes of the week:

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“We’re here to tell the government: ‘We don’t want your benefits, we don’t want your welfare, don’t come knocking on my door with your Fauci-ouchie. You leave us the hell alone!’”

– Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican, at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

“US State Department and its officials, involved to their necks in promoting social and political instability in #Cuba, should avoid expressing hypocritical concern for a situation they have been betting on. Cuba is and will continue to be a peaceful country, contrary to the US.”

– Carlos F. de Cossio, the Cuban director general for U.S. Affairs, on Twitter amid calls for freedom by the Cuban people from their communist regime.

“I support the Cuban people as they take to the streets & let their voices be heard & do everything they can’t do in Florida without it being labelled an ‘aggravated riot’ under Ron Desantis’s anti-protest law.”

– Florida state Rep. Omari Hardy, a Democrat, in a tweet replying to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s expression of support for the protesters in Cuba.

“I don’t think that we should underestimate what that could mean. Because in some people’s minds, that means, well, you’re gonna have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove that you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities. There’s no Kinkos, there’s no Office Max near them. People have to understand that when we’re talking about voter ID laws, be clear about who you have in mind and what would be required of them to prove who they are. Of course, people have to prove who they are but not in a way that makes it almost impossible for them to prove who they are.”

– Vice President Kamala Harris discussing voter ID in an interview.

“[Biden will] also decry efforts to strip the right to vote as authoritarian and anti-American and stand up against the notion that politicians should be allowed to choose their voters or to subvert our system by replacing independent election authorities with partisan ones. And he will highlight the work of the administration against this: the necessity of passing the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and how we need to work together with civil rights organizations to build as broad a turnout in voter education systems to overcome the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.”

– White House press secretary Jen Psaki at Monday’s press briefing.

“I think you are a bad human being … I have great respect for the court, but not for you, sir.”

– Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to a lawyer representing shareholders allegedly damaged by a poor deal inked by Musk.

“[The Americans] utilized all the YouTubers and influencers they could get on social media, including a certain actress with certain characteristics who began supporting the embargo, but it seems they pressured her and she ended up calling me a tyrant and some other epithets.”

– Cuban dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel claiming the U.S. government colluded with YouTubers and influencers to incite protests in Cuba. His mention of “a certain actress with certain characteristics” is likely a reference to pornstar Mia Khalifa, who responded to Diaz-Canel in a tweet.

“But [Bill Barr] became a different man when the Democrats viciously stated that they wanted to impeach him. They went wild. ‘We want to impeach him. We’re going to impeach Bill Barr. We’re going to impeach him.’ He became different. I understand that. I didn’t become different. I got impeached twice. I didn’t change. I became worse.”

– Former President Donald Trump during his speech at speech CPAC discussing his relations with former Attorney General Bill Barr.

“My fist meal as a fugitive. Delicious.”

– Texas state Rep. Gene Wu, one of the Democrats who fled the state over an election integrity bill, on Twitter, accompanied by a picture of the Caesar salad he had for lunch.

“We will overcome, we will overcome, we will overcome someday! Deep in our hearts, I do believe we will overcome someday!”

– Fugitive Texas Democrats at a Capitol Hill press conference singing “We Will Overcome.”

“Olivia Rodrigo is stopping by the White House today with a clear message to young people: get vaccinated. It’s the best way to keep yourself and your loved ones safe from the dangerous new COVID-19 variants.”

– President Joe Biden on Twitter. The president brought the 18-year-old “drivers license” singer to spread the message of youth vaccination, a decision White House staffers praised.

“Communism is a failed ideology, & we certainly believe that. It has failed the people of Cuba. They deserve freedom. They deserve a government that supports them … Instead, this has been a government — an authoritarian communist regime — that has repressed its people.”

– Press secretary Jen Psaki at a press briefing Thursday.

“Communism is a failed system, a universally failed system, and I don’t see socialism as a very useful substitute.”

– President Joe Biden at a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“I am unequivocally in the #FreeBritney camp.”

– Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Fox Business discussing Britney Spears’s conservatorship.

“If Man Crush Monday makes you get vaccinated, go for it.”

– Dr. Anthony Fauci appearing in a White House-produced video discussing vaccinations.

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“You bet we’re recognizing & honoring our country’s heritage. As most Texans, tho, this is what we’re doing tonight—using whatever is accessible, uwashing [sic] our clothes in the sink.”

– Donna Howard, a fugitive Texas Democrat on Twitter, posting a picture of her wet underwear hanging from her hotel shower curtain rod.