"If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats -- y'all impeachment's not even the big concern. They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I'll take care of you. We're going to win the midterms."
-- Speaker Mike Johnson, at Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference

"The most crowded place in the world is under Trump's bus."
-- Jim Acosta

Trump, on the new bottom surface of the Reflecting Pool:

"If you had a knife, you can't even cut it. It's so strong."
-- May 4

"Vandals...A 350-foot slit right through it. Probably a box cutter, or a knife of some kind."
-- June 22

"Well, Jon, 'Severely damaged' versus 'obliterated,' I'm not exactly sure what the difference is. What we know is we set their nuclear program back substantially."
-- JD Vance, last summer, asked if Iran's nuclear facilities had actually be "obliterated" by US strike

"Everyone needs to say f***ing obliterated....That's the word. Everyone just needs to copy what I say. Obliterated. Obliterated."
-- Trump in angry response, to an associate, according to new Haberman/Swan book

"All I have to do is look, and I listen."
-- Trump, asked for evidence of his claim of fraud when a MAGA reality TV personality finished third in the recent LA election

"You close [the Strait of Hormuz], and you won't have a country. You won't even make it back to your f***iing country."
-- Trump, threatening Iranian diplomats at peace deal negotiations, causing them to walk out in protest

"What's interesting about President Trump is that he doesn't wear it on his sleeve, but he is a person of faith. He thinks about these very deep questions: where did we come from? Where are we going?"
-- JD Vance

"This plane was transformed into a flying White House at a level of luxury that nobody has ever seen before."
-- Trump, inside the hanger where the plane gifted to him by Qatar is being prepared to serve as Air Force One

"These fools, who think I haven't been tough enough on Iran, when the Stock Market Just Hit A RECORD HIGH, and Oil prices are 'tumbling' down, are either jealous, bad people, or stupid."
-- Trump, in 4:30 a.m. post

"What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!"
-- Trump post, 11/24/13

"And you know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama, and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch."
-- Trump, at G7, on the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal