"It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me."
-- Trump, asked if he is concerned that many people see his tweet attack on four U.S. congresswomen of color as racist

"Guys, I'm telling you, 95 percent of this country is behind him in this message."
-- Eric Trump

"Man, President Trump's Twitter account has been pure fire lately. This might be the funniest thing he's ever tweeted. This is the kind of WHITE NATIONALISM we elected him for. And we're obviously seeing it only because there's another election coming up. But I'll tell you, even knowing that, it still feels so good."
-- Andrew Anglin, on his neo-Nazi web site Daily Stormer

"Please don't flush your drugs...Our sewer guys take great pride in releasing water that is cleaner than what is in the creek, but they are not really prepared for meth. Ducks, geese, and other fowl frequent our treatment pools and we shudder to think what one all hyped up on meth would do... We could create meth-gators in Shoal Creek and the Tennessee River."
-- from Facebook post by police department in Loretto, Tennessee

"The swimming pool was filled with beautiful young girls. 'How nice,' I thought, 'he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.'"
-- Trump joking about a visit to Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach home, according to Roger Stone's book The Clintons' War on Women

"I don't think that the mainstream media is free speech either because it's so crooked. It's so dishonest. So to me, free speech is not when you see something good and then you purposely write bad. To me that's dangerous speech, and you become angry at it. But that's not free speech."
-- Trump

"The kidney has a very special place in the heart. It's an incredible thing."
-- Trump

"Living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country... She hates this country... Virtually every public statement she makes accuses Americans of bigotry and racism... She has undisguised contempt for the United States and for its people."
-- Tucker Carlson on Rep. Ilhan Omar

"Not gonna lie, it's kinda fun watching a racist fool like this weeping about my presence in Congress. No lies will stamp out my love for this country or my resolve to make our union more perfect."
-- Rep. Omar in response

When asked if they've read the Mueller Report:

"I've got a lot on my reading list."
-- Rep. Fred Upton

"It's tedious. In fairness, I [started right away when it came out but] haven't picked it up in at least two weeks."
-- Sen. Lisa Murkowski

"I'd be pretty reckless to say I have a full comprehension. I need to spend more time with it."
-- Rep. David Price

"Yes, I did, and you should read it too."
-- Trump

"I read it twice."
-- George Mason University law professor J.W. Verret, who subsequently called for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings

"Think back. How many times have you heard about someplace -- a business, a school -- hoisting the American flag and a bunch of leftists come along and demand that it be taken down because it's offensive, and the institution takes it down?"
-- Rush Limbaugh

"High confidence."
-- CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency, on Russian government, at Putin's direction, conducting a sophisticated campaign to influence the 2016 election by damaging Hilton Clinton and undermining the U.S. democratic process, with a clear preference for Donald Trump

"You know who got me elected? I got me elected. Russia didn't help me at all."
-- Trump

"I guess the rain knocked out the teleprompter. I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter."
-- Trump, simultaneously explaining and denying his July 4th speech gaffe