"The whole Russia thing was a hoax, and the Ukraine thing is a hoax, and the Democrats are a joke."
-- Trump

"Bulls***!"
-- Trump on impeachment inquiry

"The whole Russia thing was a Hoax...They had nothing."
-- Trump on Mueller investigation, which resulted in felony convictions for Trump's former campaign chairman, deputy campaign chairman, personal lawyer, first national security adviser, and longtime political advisor, among others

"Let's just agree that Trump is a racist liar and move on. And, by the way, did you know he's up to almost 14,000 lies by now? My gosh, what a bad person he is. Unlike us."
-- Fox News host Tucker Carlson

"You know, some people want to change the name 'Thanksgiving.'...And that was true also with 'Christmas,' but now everybody's using 'Christmas' again...Everybody in this room I know loves the name 'Thanksgiving,' and we're not changing it."
-- Trump at Florida rally

"There's two people I think Putin pays: [CA Rep.] Rohrabacher and Trump...Swear to God."
-- Rep. Kevin McCarthy, 2016

"Why did we have this Russia hoax that actually started with Ukraine?"
-- McCarthy, 2019

"Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? And I'm serious. Why do I care? Why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which I am."
-- Fox News host Tucker Carlson

"Why do you believe that Putin was targeting Donald Trump from his days as a businessman?"
-- Rep. Jamie Raskin following up on testimony by former WH Russia expert Fiona Hill, during closed-door hearings

"Because that's exactly what President Putin and others were doing."
-- Hill

"Thank God nobody is accusing us anymore of interfering in the U.S. election. Now they're accusing Ukraine."
-- Vladimir Putin, gloating recently over his successful disinformation campaign

"God's used imperfect people all through history. King David wasn't perfect. Saul wasn't perfect. Solomon wasn't perfect. And I actually gave the president a little one-pager about those Old Testament kings about a month ago."
-- Secretary of Energy Rick Perry

"What he has withstood is unlike what really any other mortal could understand."
-- 'Fox & Friends' co-host Pete Hegseth on Trump

"They've looked like fools over the past five days...Adam Schiff is a sick puppy."
-- Trump on Democrats at impeachment hearings

"This call was flawless, it was appropriate, it was perfect, it was nice. It was everything."
-- Trump on phone conversation with Zelensky

"The ambassador, the woman, she wouldn't even put up [my picture in the embassy] -- she's an Obama person. I said, 'Why are you being so kind?' 'Well sir, she's a woman. We have to be nice.'"
-- Trump on former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch

"Kellyanne is great, but she's married to a total whack job. She must have done a number on him. I don't know what Kellyanne did to that guy... She must have done some bad things to him because that guy's crazy."
-- Trump on adviser Kellyanne Conway and George Conway

"Impeachment Witch Hunt is now OVER!"
-- Trump

"If the president said, you know, 'I'll give you the money but you gotta investigate Joe Biden,' that is really off-the-rails wrong."
-- Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doucy, 9/24

"Everyone was in the loop. It was no secret...We followed the president's orders."
-- Ambassador Gordon Sondland