Ghost guns, genocide in Ukraine, subway terror attacks, Title 42, Elon Musk trying to take over Twitter, and White House press secretary Jen Psaki laying into Fox News’s Peter Doocy. The past week packed a lot in. Here are the quotes of the week.
“This is the gun. It’s not hard to put together. A little drill, a hand drill at home, doesn’t take very long. Anyone can order it in the mail. Anyone.”
– President Joe Biden on ghost guns.
“What do you think — the deer you’re hunting wear Kevlar vests? What the hell you need 20 bullets for? You must be a hell of a terrible shot. No, I’m serious. Think about it.”
– Biden takes aim at assault weapons.
“It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is trying to wipe out the idea of being Ukrainian.”
– Biden accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of genocide for the first time.
“Can it be rebranded? Can it be rerouted? Can we do these different things? We need this product. You all have a product that we have to have in order for us to meet the demand of our country but your country, too, and the world.”
– West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin suggests the Keystone XL pipeline could be brought back under another guise.
“I understand the anger that many will feel that I, myself, fell short when it came to observing the very rules which the government I lead had introduced to protect the public, and I accept in all sincerity that people had the right to expect better. Now I feel an even greater sense of obligation to deliver on the priorities of the British people.”
– British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refuses to resign after he was fined for violating the COVID-19 guidelines his administration put in place.
“He is allowed to make his views known at any point he would like. … We shouldn’t misunderstand who he is and where he stands in the totem pole — which is at the top.”
– White House press secretary Jen Psaki answers whether anyone knew Biden was going to use the word “genocide.”
“My fellow New Yorkers, we got him — we got him. I said to New Yorkers, ‘We want to protect people of this city and apprehend those who want to bring terror to everyday New Yorkers.'”
– New York City Mayor Eric Adams celebrates the capture of the Brooklyn train terror suspect.
“He had a bag, was walking the sidewalk, and I saw him put the bag on the street like this, and I said to people, ‘Guys, get far from him. This guy is going to do something.’ People thought I was crazy, and I said, ‘Please trust me — this is the guy.’ And thank God, we caught him.”
– Zack Dahnan, a 21-year-old security camera installer, claims to be the one to have spotted the Brooklyn railway shooting suspect prior to his arrest.
“I’ll keep pushing for transparency and accountability from the administration to help secure the border, keep Arizona communities safe, and ensure migrants are treated fairly and humanely.”
– Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema calls on the Biden administration to delay lifting the Title 42 immigration policy.
“Yes, I’m saying that I would not — we’re not going to repeal the Affordable Care Act.”
– Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley tells constituents that neither he nor the Republicans as a whole would repeal the Affordable Care Act.
“Although our community is giving, well prepared, and proactive, no amount of preparation will allow for a local government such as the city of McAllen to respond to the dramatic rise in undocumented migration that is anticipated as a direct result of the United States federal government announcing the end of Title 42 effective May 23, 2022.”
– Javier Villalobos, mayor of McAllen, Texas, pleads with Biden not to end Title 42.
“I think it’s very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech. Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it’s really important that people have both the reality and perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.”
– Elon Musk during a TED Talk about his bid to buy Twitter.
“As for media sort of ownership, I mean, you’ve got Mark Zuckerberg owning Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and with a share ownership structure that will have Mark Zuckerberg XIV still controlling those entities.”
– Musk mocks Facebook owner Zuckerberg, seemingly comparing him to France’s infamous Sun King Louis XIV.
“Not only me, I think, but all of the world, all of the countries have to be worried because you know that it can be not real information, but it can be truth.”
– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warns the world Russia could be preparing to use nuclear weapons.
“He works for a network that provides people with questions that, nothing personal to any individual, including Peter Doocy, but might make anyone sound like a stupid son of a b****.”
– Psaki is asked her thoughts on Fox News reporter Peter Doocy during a recording of Pod Save America.
