“If it was why I was quitting, I would have not come back this year. I really did think about not coming back because it was devastating.” -Ellen DeGeneres on the claims of a toxic workplace at her talk show
“It's a moment where we have to decide as a party whether we're going to embrace the truth.” -Rep. Liz Cheney tells @SavannahGuthrie
“This isn't about looking backwards. This is about the real-time, current potential damage that he's doing, that he continues to do.” -Rep. Liz Cheney on former President Trump
“This fall could feel like a normal high school year.” -@DrRichBesser, former acting director of the CDC, on the FDA authorizing the Pfizer vaccine for children as young as 12
“The impact of COVID goes so far beyond the number of hospitalizations and deaths.” -@DrRichBesser
If kids ages 12 to 15 are fully vaccinated, you believe they should be able to take off those masks? -@SavannahGuthrie
How quickly do you expect results from those trials, and can we start seeing kids get vaccinated before the school year next fall? -@SavannahGuthrie
It depends on ages. -Stephen Hoge, president of Moderna
“We certainly haven’t seen anything concerning in any of our prior work that would suggest that we can’t use the vaccine in children.” -Stephen Hoge, president of Moderna
Moderna is expected to deliver 100 million shots to the U.S. by the end of this month. Do you think you’re going to make your deadline? -@SavannahGuthrie asks Moderna president Stephen Hoge
“Our goal is to feed a million families in need.” -@MichelleObama on her new Netflix show, “Waffles + Mochi,” teaming up with a nonprofit to help families gain access to healthy food
“You don't come to terms with it, but you do have to talk about it. You have to sit down with your children and acknowledge the truth of the world we live in.” -@MichelleObama on talking about mental health struggles and racial unrest with her kids
“This, first and foremost, is a family. I pray for forgiveness and healing for them so that they can use this as a teachable moment for us all." -@MichelleObama on Meghan Markle’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey
“I want to be able to look back with incredible memories and knowing that I gave it my absolute best.” -@drewbrees on his decision to retire from the NFL after 20 seasons
“This is so much more than just football. This is part of the resurrection and resurgence of one of America’s greatest cities.” -@drewbrees on joining the New Orleans @Saints in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina