WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Women's March, New York

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The women’s marches were the beginning, not the end. What happens next will be decided by what we do. Movements do not come to us from heaven, fully formed and organized. They are built by actual people, with all their political questions, weaknesses and strengths. -- Guardian 

Betsy DeVos to AEI 

"Common Core is dead" -- NPRed 

Mulvaney: Shutdown "kind of cool".

Mick Mulvaney, director of OMB

“I found out for the first time last night that the person who technically shuts down the government down is me, which is kind of cool." -- Vox 

Jill Abramson

So prevalent is the use of Trump’s name as a slur that the White House had to issue a formal statement saying the president “condemns violence, bigotry and hatred in all its forms, and finds anyone who might invoke his or any other political figure’s name for such aims to be contemptible”. -- Guardian 

Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT)

"Being from Norway is not a skill." -- To Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen