Monday, March 27, 2017

WEEKEND QUOTABLES 'Move fast and break things...'

Bannon: "Move fast and break things" 
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
“We have got to have the guts to take on the insurance companies and the drug companies and move forward toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer program, And I’ll be introducing legislation shortly to do that.” -- All In with Chris Hayes
Chicago Ald. Roderick Sawyer
"I just don't know what value he [Paul Vallas] adds to this university, that's my concern. I don't even know what a crisis intervention specialist means." -- Chicago Tribune
 Allyson Moloney, a K-4 special education teacher
“All of our paraprofessionals are tied up with testing. Even our ‘specials’ teachers — gym and tech — are tied up with PARCC testing. We don’t have a lot of extra bodies that can help us out.” -- Sun-Times
Reince Priebus
"I'm not in any trouble." -- Politico
Nicole Jorwic, dir. of rights policy for the Arc, an advocacy organization for people with intellectual disabilities 
We would hope that in his future rulings, Judge Gorsuch would see that the purpose of IDEA is to help students with disabilities achieve more meaningful progress that can ultimately lead to their success and full life in their communities." -- New York Times
Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
“By appointing Mr. Severino to enforce the life-saving protections that he has made his personal mission to dismantle, the Trump administration has once again put the fox in charge of the hen house." -- LGBTQ Nation
Gwenda Blair, Trump biographer 
...said of Trump’s supporters: “They voted for a guy who could fix it, the CEO, on The Apprentice for 10 years, who could make a deal with anybody.”  -- Guardian

1 comment:

  1. At least four of these story excerpts, here, sound like they could have come from The Onion. (Readers, can you guess which ones?)
    I'm not referring to fake or alternative news...I'm talking about news that is just...absurd.

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