The past week saw Rep. Liz Cheney (R) lose her primary in Wyoming after heavy campaigning against her from former President Donald Trump and most of the Republican establishment. Elsewhere, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) admitted Republicans might not be able to win back the Senate. Abroad, Finland’s prime minister found herself in hot water over some risque videos. Here are the quotes of the week.
“I will be doing whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.”
– Rep. Liz Cheney (R), who was beaten in her Wyoming primary, mulls a presidential bid.
“Congratulations to Harriet Hageman on her great and very decisive WIN in Wyoming. This is a wonderful result for America, and a complete rebuke of the Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs. Liz Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions towards others. Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion where, I am sure, she will be much happier than she is right now. Thank you WYOMING!”
– Former President Donald Trump gloats about ‘sanctimonious’ Cheney leaving.
“American freedom is under attack as never before. Big media, big government, even big businesses have locked arms to enact a pernicious woke agenda designed to control the American people and destroy the American dream.”
– Former Vice President Mike Pence at an event at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire.
“If there was an invitation to participate, I would consider it, but […] it would be unprecedented in history for a vice president to be summoned to testify on Capitol Hill.”
– Pence floats the idea he might speak to the Jan. 6 committee.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate. Senate races are just different — they’re statewide. Candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
– Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) admits the red wave in November might not hit the Senate.
“I don’t think it was so random.”
– Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy disagrees with the assumption that the raid on Mar-a-Lago was random.
“I agree. And I was the CIA Director.”
– Former CIA Director Michael Hayden endorses the assessment that Republicans today are the most “dangerous” political force in history.
“I apologize once again for any pain this situation has caused. I take accountability for the decision I made. My focus going forward is on working to become the best version of myself on and off the field and supporting my teammates however possible while I’m away from the team.”
– Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShaun Watson after it was announced he would be suspended for 11 games. He later said he apologized, not because he did anything wrong but because “there were a lot of people triggered.”
“I was exhausted. When you’re campaigning 18 hours a day, you — listen, I’ve gotten my kids’ names wrong as well. I don’t think that’s a measure of someone’s ability to lead the commonwealth.”
– Dr. Mehmet Oz explains how he managed to mispronounce a supermarket’s name during a video that went viral for the wrong reasons.
“The IRA, not to be confused with anything going on in Ireland, but the Inflation Reduction Act — that bill has $60 billion for diversity.”
– House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) joke about the Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t land.
“I knew he was feeling better when he requested one of his favorite meals: a McDonald’s Big Mac, Filet-o-Fish, fries and a vanilla shake.”
– Jared Kushner reveals what Trump’s favorite McDonald’s meal is.
“In the popular television series Stranger Things, the ‘upside down’ describes a parallel dimension containing a distorted version of our world. Recently, Florida has seemed like a First Amendment upside down.”
– Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker grants an injunction temporarily blocking a key aspect of Florida’s new law that restricts workplaces from implementing “woke” training about race relations.
“He’s not, in my opinion, mentally stable. He wanted to hang my friend Mike Pence and took three busloads of people to the Capitol.”
– Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) does not want Dan Cox to be his successor.
“We speak Spanglish in the house, and I know that’s the same for a lot of Latino families in the district.”
– Florida Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost explains why he released a campaign ad in Spanglish, a mix of English and Spanish.
“In recent days, there have been quite grave public accusations that I was in a space where drugs were used or that I myself used drugs. I consider these accusations to be very serious, and though I consider the demand for a drug test unjust, for my own legal protection and to clear up any doubts, I have taken a drug test today, the results of which will come in about a week.”
– Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin says she has taken a drug test after videos emerged of her partying.
“I would hope that he will understand how important it is for the American people to know every aspect of the truth about what happened that day.”
– Cheney says the Jan. 6 committee has been in touch with Pence’s counsel about testifying.
