"The word 'tariff' is the most beautiful word in the dictionary...I think it's more beautiful than 'love.'...I love tariffs...'Tariff.' It's music to my ears...It's going to make us rich."
-- Trump

"They went through a year and a half of testimony [and] deleted and destroyed all evidence that they found."
-- Trump, lying about the House J6 committee, whose work is publicly available

"Just got approached by a federal employee who asked for a selfie and shared how much she appreciates DOGE: 'It has to happen and if I get fired, I'm okay with it.'"
-- Vivek Ramaswamy

"Disdain, despise, detest, distrust -- pick your d-words."
-- Pete Hegseth on the media, "almost all" politicians, and credentialed experts, in 2020 book

"Did you know, if somebody sets a foot -- just a foot, one foot, you don't need two -- on our land, congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America."
-- Trump, misunderstanding what "birthright citizenship" is

"Everybody on [the J6] committee... for what they did, honestly, they should go to jail."
-- Trump, in interview

"We're the only country that has it."
-- Trump on birthright citizenship, which over 30 other countries, including Canada and Mexico, also have

"I won on the border and I won on 'groceries.' It's a very simple word: 'groceries.' Like, almost -- you know, who uses the word? I started using the word. The groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time."
-- Trump

"Joe Biden is a criminal and he's been a criminal for a long time. And you're a criminal, and the media, for not reporting it."
-- Trump to Reuters' Jeff Mason

"Under President Trump, we will take a blowtorch to the administrative state and reduce the size and scope of government."
-- House Speaker Mike Johnson

"If the FBI doesn't need to be cleaned out, what does?"
-- Sen. Lindsey Graham

"We are going to do things that have been really needed for a long time. And we are gonna look at elections."
-- Trump, upon being named Patriot of the Year by Fox