"What we're seeing in LA is an insurrection. This is an absolute insurrection."
-- Rep. Lauren Boebert

"Huge swaths of the city where I was born now resemble failed Third World nations. A ruptured, balkanized society of strangers."
-- Trump adivser and Santa Monica native Stephen Miller

"Of course the president supports people protesting. What a stupid question."
-- WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

"For those people that want to protest, they're going to be met with very big force."
-- Trump, before the parade

"He was never the sharpest bulb."
-- Trump, on Biden

"We're not a king."
-- Trump

"We're not a king."
-- Trump

"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