“For the Chicago Public Schools to spend approximately $70,000 a day in interest costs, that’s $70,000 a day that doesn’t go to the benefit of students. It doesn’t go to fund the school lunch program. It doesn’t buy books. It doesn’t pay teachers’ salaries. It’s $70,000 a day that they might as well have burned in Daley Plaza.”
— Laurence Msall, president of the nonpartisan Civic Federation, on two expensive loans Chicago Public Schools secured that will cost taxpayers $70,000 a day in interest
“When you have a 35 percent approval rating and you’re under FBI investigation, you don’t have a hammer.”
— GOP consultant John Weaver, on why President Donald Trump has been unable to rule with a hammer
“It didn’t go over big with my daughters, either, OK?”
— John McEnroe, reacting to an audience booing his comment on how Serena Williams would be ranked “like 700 in the world” if she played on the men’s tennis circuit
