"We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate this city from the, um, socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into this city."
-- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, at LA press conference

"I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent."
-- DOGE employee Sahil Lavingia, fired shortly thereafter

"Looking really bad in LA... If we didn't send the National Guard, Los Angeles right now would be burning to the ground...They're animals...These are paid insurrectionists, paid trouble-makers."
-- Trump

"They're not a city of immigrants. They're a city of criminals."
-- DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

"It is even said that he [Epstein] likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
-- Trump

"I have seen these pictures. I know that these pictures exist and I can describe them. There are about a dozen of them. The ones I specifically remember is the two of them with topless girls of an uncertain age sitting on Trump's lap. And then Trump standing there with a stain on the front of his pants and three or four girls kind of bent over in laughter -- they're topless, too -- pointing at Trump's pants."
-- author Michael Wolff

"Here's a lesson for us all. No matter what political party is in charge, we should all watch carefully the bills that we pass."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

"The whole climate change is a sham. First of all, God controls the climate, because he controls the sun, and the sun controls the weather, primarily."
-- Rep. Mary Miller

"I called Elon last night, he didn't answer."
-- House Speaker Mike Johnson

"The poor guy's got a problem. I won't be speaking to him for a while I guess, but I wish him well...The man who lost his mind."
-- Trump on Musk

"Call your Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT okay! KILL the BILL!"
-- Musk 

German Chancellor: "May I remind you that we having June 6 tomorrow. This is the D-Day anniversary."

Trump: "Not a pleasant day for you. That was not a great day."

Chancellor: "This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship."

"I did not know about this section 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years...I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

"I am thankful to President Trump that he is leading us out of wars, that he's ending the war in Ukraine, where Americans could have been killed if Joe Biden was still president today, whether he liked it or not."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene