WEEKEND QUOTABLES

CTU members Maria Cosme, left, and Nancy Serrano count ballots (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune) 

CTU Pres. Karen Jennings Lewis on CTU's strike vote

"But here's the deal — and this is the truth, period, the end — I don't have to work under this contract. They do. So it seems like, to me, that the people that have to work under the contract should have the most ability to say yes or no to things." -- Chicago Tribune

Jesse Sharkey 

"I fully expect that by (this) week we'll have successfully authorized a strike, and then it will be up to the delegates to talk about where that leaves us and what makes sense for a deadline. We're looking to move this toward a conclusion. All of our options are on the table, including a strike deadline."  -- Tribune

Pres. Barack Obama

And so this national museum helps to tell a richer and fuller story of who we are.  It helps us better understand the lives, yes, of the President, but also the slave; the industrialist, but also the porter; the keeper of the status quo, but also of the activist seeking to overthrow that status quo; the teacher or the cook, alongside the statesman. -- At the Dedication of the National Museum of African American History and Cultur

Bruce Springsteen on Trump

"It's a rich environment unfortunately for a demagogue." -- Swedish talk show

Monica Navarrete of Lawrenceville, Georgia

"I told him I'm going to vote for him and Hillary so my parents can stay here longer." -- Politico

Trump on using nuclear weapons

[MSNBC, March 30, 2016] Trump said he was open to nuking Europe because it’s a “big place” 

MATTHEWS: OK. The trouble is, when you said that, the whole world heard it. David Cameron in Britain heard it. The Japanese, where we bombed them in 45, heard it. They`re hearing a guy running for president of the United States talking of maybe using nuclear weapons. Nobody wants to hear that about an American president.

TRUMP: Then why are we making them? Why do we make them? -- Think Progress

Just wanted to get him on record...

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