"I own an AR-15. If there's a natural disaster in South Carolina where the cops can't protect my neighborhood, my house will be the last one that the gang will come to because I can defend myself."
-- Sen. Lindsey Graham

"I Was There, Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021."
-- T-shirt Garret Miller was wearing when police came to his Dallas home to arrest him for his actions during attack on Capitol

"I look at it this way. The first time we have an excuse. There were about a hundred thousand deaths from that original surge. All the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially."
-- Dr. Deborah Birx, Trump coronavirus response coordinator

"I'll bring voters all the damn water I want. I'm gonna have a cart out there like a motherfletchin' flight attendant. Mineral water. Spring water. Smart water. Vitamin water. Holy water. Muddy Waters. All the waters! Jim Crow can kiss my black ass!"
-- tweet by @MrGeorgeWallace

"Liberals keep saying it's easier to buy a gun than it is to vote, but I don't seem to remember when the government sent me an AR-15 in the mail."
-- Rep. Lauren Boebert

"It was zero threat, right from the start...Some of them went in and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards. They had great relationships."
-- Trump on the assault on the Capitol

"States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever."
-- Sen. Mitch McConnell

253
-- total number of bills restricting voting access introduced in 43 states

"I literally thought I was getting gassed to death like I was in Nazi Germany, a Jew getting gassed to death."
-- Luke Coffee, arrested by the FBI and accused of using a crutch as a weapon, on assaulting the U.S. Capitol

"I listened to him, but I didn't do what he said."
-- Trump on Dr. Fauci, yesterday

"The attitute is it's time to get back to normal, get back to freedom."
-- Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, on why so few people in his state wear masks

49
-- percentage of Republican men who say they will not get vaccinated