"Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen."
-- Trump

"All kidding aside, did everyone notice how despite the lack of a teleprompter, he delivered a clear, reasonable address on US foreign policy? It's nice to have a president with a brain!"
-- JD Vance on Trump's recent UN speech

"The answer to hate is not hate. The answer, as we know from the Gospel, is love, always love."
-- Erika Kirk, at her husband Charlie Kirk's memorial service

"Our lineage and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome...Our ancestors built the cities, they produced the architecture, they built the industry. We stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble...Those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred...You can build nothing, you can produce nothing, you can create nothing...We are the ones who build...who create...who lift up humanity... We have beauty, we have light, we have goodness."
-- Stephen Miller, WH deputy chief of staff, at that same service

"Free speech is the counterweight. It is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian's dream."
-- Brendan Carr, 2023

"We can do this the easy way or the hard way."
-- Carr, last week

"What about Comey, Adam 'Shifty' Schiff, Leticia??? They're all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done...We can't delay any longer, it's killing our reputation and credibility. They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!"
-- Trump, on social media

"Show me the man and I'll find the crime."
-- Lavrentiy Beria, head of the Soviet secret police under Stalin

"Biden was always a mean guy but never a smart guy... He was a stupid guy. But he was always a mean son-of-a-bitch. How's it working? It's not working out too well for him right now. So, when you start feeling sorry for him, remember he's a bad guy."
-- Trump, on the former president having cancer

"He did not hate his opponents; he wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent and I don't want the best for them...I can't stand my opponents."
-- Trump, at Charlie Kirk memorial service

"One of the last things he said to me is, 'Please sir, save Chicago.'"
-- Trump

"We've stopped seven wars, and really the number is actually ten."
-- Trump

"Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five 'Aryan' actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that 'in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.'"
-- New York Times, Feb. 3, 1939

"What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's going to go after hate speech? I mean, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech."
-- ABC reporter Jonathan Karl to Trump

"[I] should probably go after people like you, because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your heart. Maybe they'll come after ABC... Maybe they'll have to go after you."
-- Trump