"The environmental movement itself has all but given up on the environment. Don't believe it? Look around. Is our country cleaner than it was? No. It's dirtier, and it's more crowded, and it gets more of both of those things every year. The left doesn't care. They're cheering it on. Why? Because they want power. And in climate change, they found an emergency big enough to justify grabbing more power -- in fact, taking control of everything...There you have the modern left's climate agenda: no drinking straws, no automobiles, no airplanes, no meat, no democracy. In their place, endless propaganda and a parade of 15-year-old Red Guards yelling at you to stay in line. That's what they're promising you."
-- Fox News host Tucker Carlson

"Everybody's read it. They laugh at it."
-- Trump on intelligence community member's whistleblower report, which Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire has refused to share with Congress, though he is supposed to

"It's a rdiculous story. It's a partisan whistleblower. They shouldn't even have information...It's just another political hack job."
-- Trump, who says he doesn't know the identity of the whistleblower, and has not read the report

"Our media has become the laughingstock of the world...The media of our country is laughed at all over the world now. You're a joke."
-- Trump

Trump talking to reporters at border wall, describing the qualities of the new panels:

"One thing we haven't mentioned is technology. They're wired so that we will know if somebody's trying to break through. And you may want to discuss that a little bit, general."
-- Trump

"Sir, there could be some merit in not discussing that."
-- Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, acting head of the Army Corps

"Okay, I like that. That was a great answer...I'll just tell you they're wired, okay? They're wired...All set up for cameras, any place we want...They're wired out for drone technology. Anything you want, we have."
-- Trump

"Whenever you report about [the Houthis]...you should say 'The well-known, frequently-lying Houthis have said the following.' This is important because you ought not report them as truth-tellers...You should begin with 'The well-known, frequently-known-to-lie Houthis,' and then you can write whatever it is they say. And that'd be good reporting (laughter), and I know you care deeply about that good reporting."
-- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, giving advice to reporters

"I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House...I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning."
-- Trump

"I offered to resign last night...Offered to resign without his asking...and President Trump said, 'Let's talk about it tomorrow.'...[I] slept on it and gave it to him this morning...Let's be clear, I resigned, having offered to do so last night."
-- Bolton

"The Trump administration has achieved more in the 2 1/2 years of its existence than perhaps any administration in the history of our Country."
-- Trump

"Thank you to Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Minnis for your very gracious and kind words in saying that without the help of the United States and me, their [sic] would have been many more casualties..."
-- Trump

"The Trumps will be a dynasty that will last for decades, propelling the Republican Party into a new party...I think they are all amazing people with amazing capabilities."
-- Brad Parscale, Trump 2020 campaign manager

"The Washington Post's Philip Rucker (Mr. Off the Record) and Ashley R. Parker, two nasty lightweight reporters, shouldn't even be allowed on the grounds of the White House because their reporting is so DIGUSTING & FAKE."
-- Trump

"These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception. The curses and spells used in the book are actual curses and spells, which when read by a human being risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text."
-- Rev. Dan Rehill on removing Harry Potter books from the library at St. Edward School in Nashville