"You were the only person we were afraid of during the campaign."
-- Steve Bannon, to Jeffrey Epstein

"As well you should have been."
-- Epstein, in reply

"Jeff told me he had so much dirt of Trump and Clinton that, if revealed, the 2016 election would have been cancelled."
-- Jeffrey Epstein's brother, Martin

"Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours' notice to countries other than their own even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution and torture, a top official said in a memo this week..Lawyers warned that thousands of longtime immigrants with work permits and families in the US could now be uprooted and sent to places where they lack family ties or even a common language."
-- Washington Post

"I don't work for Mayor Karen Bass. Better get used to it now, cause this is going to be normal very soon. We will go anywhere, anytime we want in Los Angeles."
-- Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, after show of military force by ICE agents and military units on foot, horseback, and in armored vehicles, in MacArthur Park

"I know nothing about it other than what I read today, but I will tell you I think they're very dishonest people. I think they're crooked as hell. And maybe they have to pay a price for that."
-- Trump, asked if he wants to see James Comey and John Brennan, both under criminal investigation related to the Trump-Russia probe, behind bars

"I don't know. Why don't you tell me."
-- Trump, asked who at the Pentagon signed off on pausing weapons shipments to Ukraine last week

"No death tax. No estate tax. No going through the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker, and in some cases, Shylocks and bad people."
-- Trump, on benefits of BBB

"We didn't kill enough Indians."
-- Ann Coulter

"Biden emptied our whole country giving [Ukraine] weapons, and we have to make sure that we have enough for ourselves."
-- Trump

24
-- percent of permanent staff lost by the National Park Service since Trump took office

$1.2 billion
-- amount "Big Beautiful Bill" will cut from NPS

"Our vision of America is similar to the founders 250 years go when they said, 'We will govern ourselves, we will not be governed by a tyrannical monarch or a dictator or king.'"
-- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, wearing a MAGA hat on Fox News

"[The Democrats] hate Trump, but I hate them too, you know that? I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country."
-- Trump in July 3rd speech