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‘Suburban women, will you please like me?’ and other not-someone’s-crazy-uncle quotes of the week

Biden on equality, Meghan on social media, Zeke on Dak, and much more.

“We’re a diverse country. Unless we are able to treat people equally, we’re just never going to meet our potential.” — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (Friday, ABC News)

Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your [expletive] neighborhood, OK?” — President Donald Trump (Tuesday, The Hill)

“I don’t get that. You’re the president — you’re not like someone’s crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever!” — NBC News' Savannah Guthrie, after asking Trump in a town hall broadcast why he tweeted a QAnon conspiracy theory. He answered that it was a retweet and “people can decide for themselves, I don’t take a position.” (Friday, CBS News)

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“Judges can’t just wake up one day and say, ‘I have an agenda, I like guns, I hate guns, I like abortion, I hate abortion,’ and walk in like a royal queen and impose their will on the world.” — Amy Coney Barrett during hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court (Tuesday, Washington Post)

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“I want my vote to count so badly, but I’m really not sure it’s going to. And it’s actually frightening me.” — Philadelphia physician Anna Headley, who said her mail-in ballot arrived two weeks ago, but she had yet to open it. “I keep looking at it as if it’s a bomb.” (Friday, Washington Post)

"I’ve been going by, seeing him every day. I’m going to go by and see him as much as I can. If that’s every day, I’ll go over there every day. But I mean, he’s in very good spirits. A little bit of pain. A little bit loopy, but he’s definitely in good spirits.'' — Dallas Cowboys player Ezekiel Elliott on visiting quarterback Dak Prescott, who is out with a fractured ankle. (Thursday, Dallas Morning News)

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“We have always dedicated ourselves to work; we’ve never been known as protesters. What happened at the Boquilla dam was impressive, because we took off our farmer clothes and put on the uniform of guerrilla fighters.” — Victor Velderrain, a farmer in Mexico who helped lead the group that seized control of a dam to prevent Mexico from honoring a treaty to send water to the U.S. during a drought. (Wednesday, New York Times)

We’ve always known how special it is, and to see somebody come in and give it the love it deserves is pretty cool.” — Brian Luscher, former chef and second co-owner of The Grape restaurant, on news that Chas Martin, operator of The Charles restaurant, will open a new restaurant in to the space on Lower Greenville where The Grape operated for 47 years. (Thursday, Dallas Morning News)

“For my own self-preservation, I have not been on social media for a very long time. I made a personal choice to not have any account, so I don’t know what’s out there, and in many ways that’s helpful for me.” — Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, on why she doesn’t have personal accounts on social media platforms. (Tuesday, Reuters)

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At the park in Beverly Hills near the house we just moved away from, you were not allowed to fly a kite. Also not allowed at any park in #BeveryHills: Riding a bicycle, climbing a tree, throwing a ball against a cinder-block wall, learning anything from an instructor, using weights, cones or any type of pad, wearing cleats (even rubber ones), and you couldn’t use the batting cage built next to the baseball field.” — Actor James Van Der Beek on why he and his wife are moving with their small children to Austin. (Tuesday, Fox 26 Houston)