"We've endorsed -- J.P., right? -- J.D. Mandel, and he's doing great."
-- Trump at rally, confusing the candidate he endorsed, J.D. Vance, with rival Josh Mandel

"The opponents of the letter Z must understand that they will not be spared. Everything is serious here: concentration camps, re-education, sterilization!”
-- prominent filmmaker and television host Karen Shakhnazarov, speaking on Russian state TV

"Why do we have laws in place that protect the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of eagles?"
-- Sen. Steve Daines, speaking on the Senate floor in opposition to bill guaranteeing the right to abortion under federal law

"Socialism -- it starts with democracy. [Democrats] want to push this idea of democracy, which turns into socialism, which turns into communism in every instance."
-- Ryan Kelley, Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate

"What Q is trying to put out...is military-level intelligence, in my opinion."
-- J.R. Majewski, Ohio GOP candidate for Congress

"No comment."
-- Trump, asked if he had told Secretary of Defense Mark Esper the US military "could just shoot some Patriot missiles [into Mexico] and take out the [drug] labs. No one would know it was us."

"Today, our soldiers, as their ancestors, are fighting side by side to liberate their native land from the Nazi filth."
-- Putin

"You know, nobody has done more for Christianity, nobody has done more for religion of all types, than me."
-- Trump

"I admit, there are times when abortions are necessary, I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape."
-- President Nixon to aide Charles Colson the day after Roe v. Wade, January 1973

"I think Trump is going to run again in 2024...If I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say [quoting Andrew Jackson] 'The Chief Justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"
-- J.D. Vance