"We've done a fantastic job from just about every standpoint. We've done a great job. We've done a phenomenal job on this...When you hear the number of tests that we will be providing, and are now, it's incredible."
-- Trump

"Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine...Just a feeling. You know, I'm a smart guy. I feel good about it."
-- Trump

"This program has always taken the coronavirus seriously and we've never called the virus a hoax."
-- Fox News host Sean Hannity, 3/19/20

"They're scaring the living hell out of people and I see it again, as like, 'Oh, let's bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.'"
-- Hannity, 3/9/20

"We're on mile one of a marathon. If we're out of P.P.E. now, what does mile 25 look like?"
-- Rebecca Bartles, head of infection prevention efforts for a WA hospital chain running low on personal protective equipment

"You know, we're not a shipping clerk."
-- Trump, emphasizing that getting medical supplies is largely up to governors

Reporter, on celebs having no trouble getting tested:
"Do the well-connected go to the front of the line?...Should that happen?"

Trump:
"No, I wouldn't say so, but perhaps that's been the story of life."

"No, not at all. We have it totally under control. It's one person coming from China, and we have it under control."
-- Trump, 1/22, asked if he was worried about a pandemic

"This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."
-- Trump, yesterday

"Joe Biden is the same rotting corpse of a candidate he was three weeks ago. It's just that Democrats have decided that they would be better off with the dead guy than with Crazy Bernie."
-- Team Trump tweet

"I would like to see a dramatic diminution of the personal interaction we see in restaurants and bars...You could...be a vector or a carrier."
-- Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID director

"If you're healthy, you and your family, it's a great time to just go out, go to a local restaurant...Go to your local pub."
-- Rep. Devin Nunes

"Just a reminder that when Shakespeare was quarantined because of the plague, he wrote King Lear."
-- Rosanne Cash 

"You say 'me.' I didn't do it...I don't know anything about it...It's an administration, perhaps they do that. Let people go."
-- Trump, asked by NPR's Yamiche Alcindor about having disbanded his global health team in 2018

"I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it."
-- Beth Cameron, former senior director for global health security and biodefense on the WH National Security Council