"[We] had a chance [to change the election results], but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn't want to be impeached...I said, 'Look, get impeached. I went up a lot in the polls when I got impeached. You have to get impeached, maybe.'"
-- Trump

"I told him that all this stuff was bulls*** about the election fraud, and it was...wrong to be shoveling it out the way his team was."
-- Bill Barr

"The main goal was to help people... We were forced to do it...We couldn't put up with it any longer... A clash was inevitable...It was just a matter of time...We didn't have a choice, this was the right thing to do."
-- Putin justifications for invasion of Ukraine

"President Trump does what President Trump wants to do... There may be -- I foresee a limited form of martial law and I don't see any other way around it... Biden will never be in that White House. That's my promise to each and every one of you."
-- Jason Sullivan, former Roger Stone aide, during conference call with Trump supporters a week before the Jan 6 attack

"I skipped the first three; I'm not getting that one either....Whatever you're telling me, it's just not true."
-- Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Covid-19 vaccines

"I think I'm the most honest human being, perhaps, that God has ever created."
-- Trump

"Social media is not reality. You can be or say anything you want on social media. Hey, anything for the 'Gram or Facebook. It's not reality."
-- defense lawyer Camille Wagner, defending her 1/6 client's violent online talk

"I don't understand where the men are. Like, where are the dads? You know, some teacher's pushing sex values on your third-grader, why don't you go in and thrash the teacher?"
-- Fox News' Tucker Carlson

"They say that in Russia the people don't even know they're having a war because they have a rigged press. We have the same rigged press. Maybe not quite as severe."
-- Trump, on a country where more than 20 journalists have been murdered since Putin came to power

"The last Judge Jackson [Robert H. Jackson] left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg and prosecute the case against the Nazis. This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them."
-- Sen. Tom Cotton on SC nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

recent tweets by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene:

"Disney wants to completely take your children and they want to indoctrinate them into sexual immoral filth."

"Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile."

"Next year, the woke Disney lobbyists will ask Congress to extend Micky [sic] Mouse's trademark [sic]. I think not."