"Ι said, 'This is genius!'...Putin declares a big portion of Ukraine independent...I said, 'How smart is that?'...He's gonna go in and be a peacekeeper...You gotta say that's pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response...It's very sad."
-- Trump, on hearing about Russia's invasion

"Mask restrictions are easing just in time for us to see each other's expressions when World War III starts."
-- Stephen Colbert

"Think about it. Other countries have a country."
-- Trump

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
-- P.J. O'Rourke

"There is no place on earth outside of American colleges and newsrooms where Sandy Cortez would be recognized as a 'woman of color,' because she's not. She's a rich, entitled white lady."
-- Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Rep. AOC

"It ain't a vaccine! Call it what it is, a crime against humanity."
-- Mark Finchem, AZ candidate for secretary of state

"They censor, cancel, and persecute ordinary citizens for speaking the truth, while they drown your endless tormet of -- I mean what they do, they have an endless list of propaganda and propaganda methods that nobody would believe, including hoaxes and demented lies."
-- Trump at Texas rally

"The perfect way to enjoy Coffee, Tea, or Liberal Tears!"
-- pitch letter promoting $20 campaign-merch mug showing Sen. Josh Hawley's fist-raise to Jan 6 demonstrators outside Capitol 

"I hope the truckers come to America, and I hope they clog up the cities."
-- Sen. Rand Paul

"It's like Wordle for serious readers."
-- Dan Mulhall, Irish ambassador to the US, on the 100th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses