"I am proud to shut down the government for border security...I'm not going to blame [Democrats] for it."
-- Trump, December 11

"The Democrats now own the shutdown!"
-- Trump, December 21

"Hard to believe what's happened. In the face of counsel not to do so by everyone in his administration and everyone in the Pentagon, the president gets off a phone call with the president of Turkey, then does the bidding of Russia, and Vladimir Putin thanks him, while the defense secretary resigns. It is unprecedented in American history, isn't it?"
-- Fox News host Shep Smith

"He just re-founded ISIS."
-- Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade

"General Jim Mattis will be retiring..."
-- Trump tweet, sent after Mattis had resigned, in person

"My views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about malign actors and strategic competitors are closely held..."
-- from Mattis' resignation letter

"The most decorated Marine and thought leader on the military basically said, 'f*** this.'"
-- a source close to Mattis, quoted in a Daily Beast story

"Even a Washington Post reporter knows that not one inch of Trump's wall has been built. Does Trump think his supporters are dumber than a WaPo reporter?"

"He has changed his story four or five times."
-- Rudy Giuliani on Michael Cohen

"So has the president."
-- George Stephanopoulos

"The president is not under oath."
-- Giuliani

"If Mueller's investigation were truly a 'witch hunt,' then Donald Trump would be hanging naked from chains in a cold barn somewhere, being tortured into admitting his pact with Satan, before being burned at the stake. Instead he's golfing at Mar-a-Lago."

"Over my dead body."

"A real scandal is the one-sided coverage, hour by hour, of networks like NBC and Democrat spin machines like 'Saturday Night Live.'...Should be tested in courts, can't be legal?"

"So often, the president would say here's what I want to do and here's how I want to do it and I would have to say to him, 'Mr. President I understand what you want to do but you can't do it that way. It violates the law.'"

"Michael Cohen pled guilty to something that's not even a crime."