"I would give myself an A-Plus. Is that enough? Can I go higher than that?"

"I think we've wasted enough time on this witch hunt...Probably we're finished."

"Don't worry about the Thanksgiving. These are tough people."

"People close to the president said Mr. Whitaker first came to the attention of Mr. Trump because he liked watching Mr. Whitaker express skepticism about aspects of Mr. Mueller's investigation on television."
-- NYT story

"I did not know he took views on Mueller as such."
-- Trump

"There must be decorum at the White House."
-- WH Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday

"Little Adam Schitt"
-- Trump tweeting re House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff two days later

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Trump, asked by Chris Wallace why he didn't go to Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day: 

"I should have done that. I was extremely busy on calls for the country. We did a lot of calling... In retrospect I should have and I did last year and I will virtually every other year. But we had come in very late at night and I had just left, literally, the American Cemetery in Paris and I really probably assumed that was fine, and I was extremely busy with affairs of state. Doing other things... But I would have. I would have done it."

"Cable television was supposed to be a dying medium. And because of me it's now hotter than it's ever been. But someday I won't be here and it will die like you've never seen. And so will the New York Times -- will die -- and every one of them will just be dead."

"You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card, you need ID. You go out and you want to buy anything, you need ID and you need your picture...The only time you don't need it in many cases is when you want to vote..."

"Almost everything I've ever written I could finish at one sitting. I'm a fast writer. Maybe not the best, but the fastest."