“I did something good: I made Juneteenth very famous. It’s actually an important event, an important time. But nobody had ever heard of it.” — President Donald Trump, on the holiday, celebrated for more than a century, across the country and in places around the world, to commemorate the end of slavery. (Thursday, USA Today)
“I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations.” — Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton, in a memoir on his time in the White House. (Wednesday, Washington Post)
“It will be safe for Texas public school students, teachers, and staff to return to school campuses for in-person instruction this fall. But there will also be flexibility for families with health concerns so that their children can be educated remotely if the parent so chooses.” — Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath. (Thursday, Texas Tribune)
“We just got a positive test result for a staff member at Montlake Cut two hours ago. The reality is, this is everywhere. We’re just trying to be as transparent and open about it as possible, and I know lots of people aren’t, but we think we’ve got a responsibility to be as honest as we can.” — Dallas chef and restaurant owner Nick Badovinus on the lack of protocols for restaurants when an employee gets COVID-19. (Wednesday, Dallas Morning News)
“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up.” — Siouxsie Wiles, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, a country that had three new cases of COVID-19 over the last three weeks and where citizens have mostly returned to their routines. (Friday, Washington Post)
“The sense of community that I grew up within a smaller town is completely dissolved as I move into a city, so having community involvement like a neighborhood watch or a rotating council of people making decisions is something I think needs to happen for any sort of brighter future in the United States.” — Antonio Ochoa, a volunteer, unarmed guard in Seattle’s protest zone. (Wednesday, Washington Post)
“We must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear. An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.” — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch writing the majority decision to protect LGBTQ rights in the workplace. (Monday, Washington Post)
“Listen Hellboy. You talk a good game when you’ve got Hollywood makeup & stuntmen. But I’ll bet $10k—to the nonpolitical charity of your choice—that you couldn’t last 5 min in the wrestling ring w/ @Jim_Jordan w/o getting pinned. You up for it? Or does your publicist say too risky?” — Ted Cruz, inserting himself into a Twitter argument between actor Ron Perlman and Rep. Matt Gaetz on the patriotism of the U.S. Soccer Team, prompting Perlman to challenge Cruz and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to wrestling matches for charity dollars. (Sunday, Twitter)
“Squint and imagine if women ran everything” — Emily Ramshaw, former Texas Tribune editor and founder of The 19th, responding to the Perlman/Gaetz/Cruz chest-beating (Sunday, Twitter)
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