"I wish they'd turn up at my home, 'cause they'd have gone home in a body bag."
-- FL GOP congressional candidate Martin Hyde, on the FBI

"I hope they...are cautious about doing something as stupid as trying to go after President Trump."
-- Trump attorney Christina Bobb, on the Department of Justice

"Only certain members of staff can get there...It's a very limited number of people that have access down there."
-- Trump attorney Christina Bobb, on Mar-a-Lago room where classified documents were stored

"Should not only be impeached, he probably should be executed. The guy is just lost. He's a lost soul."
-- GOP House candidate Carl Paladino on Attorney General Merrick Garland

"I'm very worried for our agent Trump. They found everything at Mar-a-Lago, they got packages of documents. In all seriousness, they say he should be executed as a person that was ready to hand off nuclear secrets to Russia...Will they include Trump on the prisoner exchange list?"
-- host of Russian state TV show "Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov"

"A lot of people say we're in a Banana Republic. I think that's an insult to Banana Republics across the country. I mean, at least the manager of Banana Republic, unlike our president, knows where he is and why he's there and what he's doing."
-- GOP congressional candidate Bob Hines

"President Nixon said, 'If the president does it, then it is not illegal.' Is that not truly the standard when it comes to classified documents?"
-- Fox News host Will Cain

"The FBI has a long and unrelenting history of being corrupt."
-- Trump

"President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified. How many of them pertained to nuclear? Word is, lots!"
-- Trump

"They shipped 30 million pages of sensitive and possibly classified materials to Chicago, and, by the way, he has yet to return any of it to the National Archives. Not one page."
-- Sean Hannity

"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) assumed exclusive legal and physical control of Obama Presidential records when President Barack Obama left office in 2017, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act (PRA). NARA moved approximately 30 million pages of unclassified records to a NARA facility in the Chicago area where they are maintained exclusively by NARA."
-- statement in response by U.S. National Archives

"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose voters."
-- Trump, 2016