"Portland, Oregon, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
-- Trump

Reporter at Antifa round table, to Trump: "Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus...?"

Trump: "Suspending who?"

Reporter: "Habeas corpus, sir."

Trump: "Oh. I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

"It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
-- RFK Jr., on Tylenol and autism

"How many illegal immigrants are there in Chicago -- does anybody know?"
-- Sen. Lindsey Graham, at hearing

"I do. Countless."
-- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

"There is so much about the moment that is trying to make people feel like they've lost their minds, when in fact these motherf*ckers are crazy."
-- Kamala Harris on Trump administration

"Bad Bunny says America has four months to learn Spanish before his perverse unwanted performance at the Super Bowl halftime. It would be a good time to pass my bill to make English the official language of America."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

"The gangbangers that you deal with -- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are. You are unleashed."
-- Stephen Miller, to ICE agents

"I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy. We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere. One of the things I spent a lot of time doing was trying to convice a person like Vladimir Putin, for example, to accept the notion of an independent press. It's kind of hard to tell others to have an independent free press when we're not willing to have one ourselves."
-- George W. Bush, asked in 2017 if he'd ever considered the media to be "the enemy of the people," as Trump frequently claimed

"I love my signature. I really do. Everyone loves my signature."
-- Trump, to assembled US military leaders

"I'll be meeting with President Xi, of China, in four weeks, and Soybeans will be a major topic of discussion. MAKE SOYBEANS, AND OTHER ROW CROPS, GREAT AGAIN!"
-- Trump