“You have 50 Democrats, everyone is president” and more quotes from the week

“When you are in the United States Senate and you are President of the United States, and you have 50 Democrats, each is president. So you have to work things out. “- President Joe Biden, for getting his party to approve his social infrastructure plan. (Friday, CNN)

“I just want him to be vaccinated, wherever he can go. i will call her [pediatrician], I’m going to go to the pharmacy. The first to meet me, I’m here.“- Diana Arrezola, a South Dallas mom keen to get her 9-year-old son Miguel Reyes vaccinated against COVID-19. (Thusday, The morning news from Dallas)

“I have real reservations because I think this is another example of great government. And we don’t do that. – Texas Representative Kel Seliger R-Amarillo on a bill that would have prevented companies from requiring vaccines for their employees. The bill failed. (On Monday, Texas Tribune)

“Really, at the end of the day, it feels like they’re saying to the operators, ‘Get out there and do your best.’ You hope that [plant operators and distribution companies] were already doing their best.“- Adrian Shelley with the Public Citizen Watch Group, on the Texas Public Utility Commission’s approach to ensuring the reliable operation of power generators in winter by forcing them to do their best to fix the issues that led to blackouts deadly current in February. (Friday, The morning news from Dallas)

“It is my belief that they were trying to get cases of Democrats committing electoral fraud. And that just wasn’t the case. This kind of exploded in their faces.“- Eric Frank, a progressive polling agent in Pennsylvania who demanded a $ 25,000 bounty from Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick for advice that led to a single illegal vote conviction by a registered Republican. Patrick had offered to pay cash for evidence of electoral fraud after Donald Trump was defeated in the presidential election. (Thusday, The morning news from Dallas)

“I have met so many people who have no hope, who say they feel helpless and hopeless. And I tell them, ‘Well, it’s because we’re always told to think globally, to act locally.’ But quite honestly, if you overall think you’re so depressed… turn it the other way around … You and friends get together and start doing something and you find that you are making a difference. And then you realize that, well, in other parts of the world people feel like you, do like you because they’re being advised to take local action, and you’ve made a difference so you want to do more. And it inspires other people. So it’s an upward spiral like this, of hope growing with action. – Naturalist Jane Goodall (Monday, NPR)

“I used to cycle to work, but I had children, and I was certain that I would die if I continued to travel downtown without designated bike lanes. “- Dallas attorney Stephen Green, who joined cycling enthusiasts and several Dallas council members at a Bike to City Hall event to call for more bike lanes. (Thusday, KERA)

“At a new car dealership for service and there are more coffee machines in this dealership than new cars. “- Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist (Wednesday, Twitter)

“They are a bunch of bureaucrats with no imagination. “- Ian Brackenbury Channell, who had been employed as the official wizard of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, for more than two decades until he lost his job earlier this month after making jokes about the violence against women and launched a “Save the Men” campaign. to “protect the last endangered species”. (On Monday, The New York Times)