"God came and told me [Mitt Romney] needs to be removed from the U.S. Senate."
-- Roger Stone

"I was teaching [my colleagues] how to stab [the rioters] in the neck and stab them in the eye...We had pens...Like, I would have killed all those motherf***ers to save this democracy. F*** those guys."
-- Rep. Ruben Gallego, a former Marine, on being trapped in the Capitol on 1/6

"Dude, stop! Testicle tanning? Come on."
-- Kid Rock, to Tucker Carlson

"Open your mind, Bobby."
-- Carlson, in reply

"In every episode now, they're going to have Mickey and Pluto going at it...You can always shift to Cinemax if you want that."
-- Sen. Ted Cruz on Disney's opposition to Florida "Don't Say Gay" law

"Freedom smells even better when you take off your dirty mask."
-- Fox News' Pete Hegseth

"Border Patrol agents have apprehended more than 1,000,000,000 migrants at our southern border in just 6 months."
-- Rep. Debbie Lesko

"I knew Putin very well. Almost as well as I know you, Sean."
-- Trump to Hannity

"...A little history on homelessness. Nineteen and ten, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while, so for two years [he did], and practiced his oratory and his body language and how to connect with the masses, and then went on to lead a life that got him in the history books. So a lot of these people, it's not a dead end. They can come out of these homeless camps and have a productive life. Or in Hitler's case, a very unproductive life."
-- TN state senator Frank Niceley debating a bill criminalizing homeless camps on public property

"I rebuilt NATO."
-- Trump, on Fox News

"It's no accident we call [Ukrainians] Nazis. What makes you a Nazi is your bestial nature, your bestial hatred, and your bestial willingness to tear out the eyes of children on the basis of nationality."
-- Margarita Simonyan, head of Kremlin-backed media group