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You could be forgiven for thinking the only thing that happened this week was the verdict in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial or the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. However, President Joe Biden continued to push for gun control reforms, and his team pushed back on claims that he is unhappy with them cleaning up after his comments. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman revealed Friday how close he came to dying. Here are this week’s quotes of the week.
“I can do the things I’ve done, and any executive action I can take, I’ll continue to take. But I can’t outlaw a weapon. I can’t change a background check. I can’t do that.”
– President Joe Biden says it’s on Congress to issue gun control legislation.
“The breathlessness of graphs 1 & 2 versus the denial being relegated to graph 28 tells you what you need to know about this story. And as we’ve said before, no clarifications of the president’s remarks are ever issued without his direct approval.”
– Biden spokesman Andrew Bates denies that the president is unhappy with his team regularly cleaning up after his comments.
“I told the truth to the FBI, and the jury clearly recognized that with their unanimous verdict today.”
– Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann after being acquitted of lying to the FBI.
“My plan to address inflation starts with [a] simple proposition: Respect the Fed. Respect the Fed’s independence.”
– Biden reveals his plan to deal with inflation.
“So I’m mad at him because he never asked, but he’s taking credit that he asked.”
– Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker says he’s annoyed that former President Donald Trump is taking credit for getting him in the race.
“I was told the class of ’72 is here. I was appointed to the academy in 1965 by a senator who I was running against in 1972 — never planned it that way. I wasn’t old enough to be sworn in. I was only 29 years old when I was running.”
– Biden draws scrutiny for a claim he was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1965 — which does not line up with historical data.
“Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also the lives of the people who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed. And six years later, the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled.”
– Johnny Depp’s statement after a jury found his ex-wife Amber Heard guilty of defamation.
“The disappointment I feel today is beyond words. I’m heartbroken that the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband.”
– Heard voices her displeasure at the result.
“I found a credit card charge for $10,000 at a hot tub store in Los Angeles. I found hundreds at liquor stores and strip clubs. The whole time, he told me he was healthy and sober — and I was crazy. I continually told him that I was the one person actually trying to get him sober. It became my own kind of addiction. I didn’t want to admit, to myself or anyone else, how unhealthy our relationship had become, so my struggle was just one more secret.”
– Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, writes about her relationship with him in her new book If We Break.
“I ask you that you keep focused, stay focused, stay in high gear. We can’t let up in the infant formula market until it’s all the way back to normal. And that’s going to take a couple more months, but we’re making significant progress.”
– Biden says the baby formula shortage is still a couple of months away from being fixed.
“I don‘t think there is a single incident, and maybe there is one, but I have not found one of an assailant using an assault weapon that was stopped by a person with a gun. Maybe there’s one.”
– Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) on gun control.
“Standing there in that small town, like so many other communities across America, I couldn’t help but think there are too many other schools, too many other everyday places, that have become killing fields, battlefields here in America.”
– Biden laments how schools have become “killing fields.”
“Lots of luck on his trip to the moon. I don’t know.”
– Biden takes a shot at Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO said he had a “bad feeling” about the economy.
“President Biden was right to point out that we know which policies can help build safer communities for us all — from an assault weapons ban to expanding background checks to ending immunity for gun makers.
“But what the president didn’t do tonight was articulate a clear plan for building support and eventually passing some of these measures.”
– Guns Down America Executive Director Igor Volsky on Biden’s speech.
“Like so many others, and so many men in particular, I avoided going to the doctor even though I knew I didn’t feel well. As a result, I almost died.”
– Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman reveals how close to death he came when he suffered a stroke days before his primary win.
“I truly believe that I could win this, but it would be an incredibly divisive race for our party, for the district. There’s a high likelihood that there would be a lot of outside money coming in, so it would make this gun issue the issue. And that divisiveness [is] not good in any effort to move this discussion forward in a productive way.”
– Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY) withdraws from his reelection bid after his support for gun control put him at odds with his party base.
