"[The HR1 Voting Rights bill] says America would be better off if more murderers were voting. America would be better off if more rapists and child molesters were voting."
-- Sen. Ted Cruz 

"If you legalize marijuana you're going to kill your kids. That's what the data shows from around the country."
-- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts

"Do you think using the term 'Chinese Virus' puts Asian-Americans at risk, that people might target them?"
-- reporter, a year ago

"Not at all. I think they probably would agree with it 100%."
-- Trump in response

"I wanted to take my regular, normal-person, normal everyday values -- which is, we love our country. We believe our hard-earned tax dollars should just go for America, not for -- what, China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam, whatever, wherever."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, dissing a U.S. Territory whose residents are American citizens

"My family watches Tucker Carlson once and then watches it on the replay because they feel he is making the white nationalist talking points better than they have, and they're trying to get some tips on how to advance it."
-- former white supremacist Derek Black, whose father started Stormfront, the largest, oldest white supremacist site on the internet

"The risk is very, very low...I'm not concerned at all...We've done a great job with it."
-- Trump on COVID-19, a year ago

"Would anybody have marched on the Capitol, and overrun the Capitol, without the president's speech? I think it's pretty much definitive that wouldn't have happened."
-- Trump's Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller

"I knew those were people that loved this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law. Had the tables been turned, and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa protestors, I might have been a little concerned."
-- Sen. Ron Johnson

"When the right answer comes out, you'll be praised."
-- Trump, in December call to Francis Watson, chief investigator for Georgia Secretary of State

"Dr. Seuss was never a major literary figure."
-- Tucker Carlson