"If I had a nickel for every time that I found out I had a new half-sibling online, I'd have a few nickels -- which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened SIX SEPARATE TIMES."
-- Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's daughter

"No organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization."
-- Elon Musk

"A significant part of this presidency is to restore democracy."
-- Elon Musk

"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
-- Trump post

"We are a nation of laws... New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years. We sure as hell are not going to start now... The MTA has initiated legal proceedings."
-- Gov. Kathy Hochul

"Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending 350 billion dollars, to go into a war that couldn't be won, that never had to start, but a war that he, without the U.S. and 'Trump,' will never be able to settle."
-- Trump

"Today I heard, 'Oh, well, we weren't invited.' Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it in three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal..."
-- Trump on Zelenskyy

"I'd like it to be closed immediately. The Department of Education is a big con job."
-- Trump

"'60 Minutes' are the biggest liars in the world. They engaged in deliberate deception to interfere with the last election. They deserve a long prison sentence."
-- Elon Musk

"They've had civilizations in Gaza, thousands of them. And they're buried in the sand."
-- Trump

"He who saves his Country does not violate any law."
-- Trump quoting Napoleon, during Napoleon's reign as emperor

"Spoken like a true dictator."
-- Sen. Adam Schiff

"They only go after people like Trump, they don't go after criminals."
-- Trump on US criminal justice system

"To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God. And I won't do that."
-- televangelist Paula White, appointed by Trump to lead the White House "Faith Office"

"I'm a survivor of childhood polio. In my lifetime, I've watched vaccines save millions of lives from devastating diseases across America and around the world."
-- Sen. Mitch McConnell on a disease that once killed or paralyzed half a milliion people each year, voting against confirmation of RFK Jr.

"I don't know anything about 'He had polio, he had polio.' I have no idea if he had polio."
-- Trump on McConnell

"No, I didn't go. I got reports. They were so bad, I didn't want to go. There was nothing that I wanted to see."
-- Trump, asked if he has seen any shows at The Kennedy Center, of which he has now made himself president

A few of the over 200 Kennedy Center performances in 2024:
Macbeth
Renée Fleming sings Strauss
Mamma Mia!
National Bunraku Theater of Japan
Patty LuPone: A Life in Notes
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
Sara Bareilles: National Symphony Orchestra
Korean National Ballet
New York City Ballet: Jewels
Patty LuPone: A Life in Notes
Nora Jones: Visions Tour 2024
Cyrus Chestnut: Duke Ellington Sacred Concert
Here It Is: A Tribute to Leohard Cohen
Audra McDonald: National Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven's Fifth