"The President's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, but that is largely because the persons who surrounded the President declined to carry out orders or accede to his requests."
-- Mueller report

"Nobody disobeys my orders."
-- Trump in response

"[If we] had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment."
-- Mueller report

"No Obstruction!...It is now finally time to turn the tables and bring justice to some very sick and dangerous people who have committed very serious crimes, perhaps evern Spying and Treason."
-- Trump on Mueller investigation

"The best day since he got elected."
-- Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway on release of Mueller report

"Oh, my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm f***ed...How could you let this happen to me, Jeff?"
-- Trump to AG Sessions, on learning Robert Mueller had been appointed special counsel

"If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment... The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President's corrupt exercise of the power of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law."
-- Mueller report

"Crazy Mueller Report...It was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the 'Report' about me, some of which are total bullshit..."
-- Trump

"I haven't read it, but it's just wholly unnecessary. You just don't need it. It's pure mischief."
-- former Trump attorney John Dowd on Mueller report

"Presidential harassment!"
-- Trump

"This WikiLeaks is like a treasure trove."
-- Trump 2016

"I love WikiLeaks."
-- Trump 2016

"This WikiLeaks stuff is unbelievable. It tells you the inner heart, you gotta read it."
-- Trump 2016

"They've got it all down, folks. WikiLeaks."
-- Trump 2016

"Oh, we love WikiLeaks...I just love reading those WikiLeaks."
-- Trump 2016

"I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It's not my thing...It's not my deal in life."
-- Trump last week, after the arrest of Julian Assange

"Clearly the president was making a joke during the 2016 campaign."
-- WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders

"We will in all likelihood never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime."
-- Trump evangelical adviser and former Rep. Michelle Bachman, on Trump

"She is somebody that doesn't really understand life -- real life. What it's all about. She's got a way about her that's very, very bad for our country."
-- Trump on Rep. Ilhan Omar

"I'm the only person running Homeland Security."
-- Trump

"When I won the election in 2016, the New York Times had to beg their fleeing subscribers for forgiveness in that they covered the election (and me) so badly...Their sources often don't even exist, a fraud. They will lie and cheat any way possible to make me look bad. In six years they will be gone."
-- Trump