Quotables

“I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness—it’s deeply unfair.”

Democratic California Gov. GAVIN NEWSOM, admitting in a podcast conversation with conservative activist Charlie Kirk that it was unfair for transgender males to compete against females in sports.

“We have bigger fish to fry than fights over what has been very important to us and to their history.”

Washington, D.C., Mayor MURIEL BOWSER, saying March 5 the city would remove its yellow “Black Lives Matter” mural from a plaza near the White House after a Republican bill threatened to revoke the district’s federal funding over the slogan.

“Read this e-mail immediately.”

A GOVERNMENT EMAIL sent to 180 fired U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees on March 4, asking them to return to their jobs just two weeks after receiving termination notices.

“If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end.”

A statement from the CHINESE EMBASSY to the United States posted to X on March 4 in response to 20% American tariffs on products from China.

“We’ve got to get the genie back in the bottle.”

Texas state Sen. CHARLES PERRY, R-Lubbock, during a March 3 committee hearing on his bill to prohibit hemp products containing THC just six years after he supported a 2019 law legalizing them.