WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Quarter-million marched in Chicago

Donald Trump

Mentioned education only once in his inauguration speech, referring to, "...an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge." -- Transcript

 Elizabeth Warren

We Can Whimper, We Can Whine, Or We Can Fight Back. -- Huffington

Conway 

KellyAnn Conway on Alt-facts

"You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she told NBC's Chuck Todd. -- NBC News

Dan Rather

These are not normal times. These are extraordinary times. And extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. -- Facebook post on Alt-facts

Valerie Strauss

But the record shows that Democrats can’t just blame Republicans for her ascension. It was actually Democrats who helped pave the road for DeVos to take the helm of the Education Department. -- Washington Post

Lindbergh

American First-er Charles Lindbergh in 1941

The “greatest danger” Jews posed to the U.S. “lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our government." -- L.A. Times

Peter Leyden,  founder & CEO of Reinvent

I think the backlash will be fast and furious. And it won’t just be Trump that goes down — it will be large swaths of conservative Republicans who will be almost helpless to stop Trump or distance themselves from him. -- Medium

Day One of the #resistance. Took us 5 years to get numbers this big against G.W. Bush. Only 24 hours against Trump. pic.twitter.com/h6RMm5bkkn

— Van Jones (@VanJones68) January 22, 2017