"Flying over Tehran and Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli firepower every minute of every day until we decide it is over. B-2s, B-52s, drones and fighters controlling the skies. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. This was never meant to be a fair fight... We control their fate."
-- SecDef Pete Hegseth

"We're not at war right now."
-- Speaker Mike Johnson

"In my knowledge and understanding today, the American government does not have a clearly formulated strategy for the future civilian leadership of this country."
-- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

"Most of the people we had in mind are dead."
-- Trump

"We don't know who's leading the country now. They don't know who's leading. It's a little like the unemployment line."
-- Trump, on Iran

"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective."
-- Trump on Obama, 2011

"Our interest, I think very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country."
-- JD Vance, 2025

"I don't know anything about the Epstein files. I've been fully exonerated."
-- Trump

"I've always wanted the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I was informed I'm not allowed to give it to myself, and I wouldn't know why I'd be taking it. But if they ever opened up that law I will be there with you someday."
-- Trump, in his State of the Union address

"Our country is winning again. In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me: 'Please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much; we can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country. Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we are winning too much.' And I say, 'No, no, no, you're going to win again. You are going to win big. You are going to win bigger than ever.'"
-- Trump, in State of the Union address

"It just amazes me that there's not more support out there. We actually have a silent support."
-- Trump, on his latest poll numbers

"I was talking to a U.S. Marshal just yesterday, and he was talking about the fact that they were deporting a planeload of illegals, and one of them was a cannibal. He called himself a cannibal, ate other people and ate himself."
-- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

"The Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly."
-- Trump

"This is a legitimate organization where there are tens of member countries from around the world."
-- WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt