"Spain actually said that we can't use their bases, and that's all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it."
--Trump

"In its last moments of life."
-- Trump, on Cuba

"I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. It's just a matter of time now... We're marching through the world. We're cleaning out the bad guys...[Donald Trump] is the greatest commander-in-chief of all time... Iran is going down, and Cuba is next."
-- Sen. Lindsey Graham

"Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors... Iran is no longer the 'Bully of the Middle East,' they are, instead, 'THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST' and will be for many decades until they surrender..."
-- Trump

"What's happening with Cuba is amazing. And we think that -- we want to finish this one [Iran] first, but that will be just a question of time... We could do them all at the same time. But bad things happen. If you watch countries over the years, you do them all too fast, bad things happen."
-- Trump, on Cuba

"If they rise, they rise."
-- Trump, on gas prices

"I guess."
-- Trump, asked if Americans should fear retaliatory attacks

"Pretty neat."
-- Sen. Markwayne Mullin on being nominated to head DHS

"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