Weekend Quotables

Biden got his watered-down Infrastructure Bill passed with Republican help and a pinky promise to progressives to get something done on Build Back Better by next week.

In Paris, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of City Hall, where activists held up portraits of world leaders they accused of doing too little to curb global warming. The leaders’ names, including President Biden and President Emmanuel Macron of France, were read out and then booed by the crowd. .

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis)

“The whole day was a clusterfuck, right?” said senior progressive Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), who helped negotiate the rapprochement with the moderates. — Politico

Rep. ‘Chuy’ Garcia

“I took this vote with my colleagues in the Progressive Caucus to begin that process, with the word of the President and a signed commitment from moderate Democrats to pass the Build Back Better Act out of the House no later than the week of November 15.” — Release

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"It's already so stripped down, but there are still huge landmark investments in this [bill]. But if we don't deliver the Build Back Better Act on climate, we will have done virtually nothing.” — Business Insider

Ja'han Jones @_Jahan

"The Youngkin campaign discovered that a contingent of angry, willfully ignorant white people was the key ingredient needed to elect a GOP governor in Virginia for the first time since 2009." — MSNBC

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers

"I realize I'm in the crosshairs of the woke mob." — CBS News

Pres. Joe Biden

“The Ortega and Murillo family now rule Nicaragua as autocrats, no different from the Somoza family that Ortega and the Sandinistas fought four decades ago.” — AP

—I must remind Pres. Biden, that the U.S. fully supported the brutal and corrupt Somoza dictatorship and helped keep them in power for four decades. The CIA supplied the Contras with training and equipment, including materials related to torture and assassination, as well as engaging in drug trafficking in Nicaragua.— M.K.

Dan Rather

Dan Rather @DanRather

Many people alive today were alive when Jim Crow was in full force. And when these same people were born, former slaves were still alive. We are not that far removed from this history. It is the truth, and it should be taught.