"We're getting rid of all the cancer -- I call it cancer -- that was caused by the Biden administration."
-- Trump

"Regulations, basically, should be default gone. Not default there, default gone...We've got to restore freedom.. If it's not possible now, it'll never be possible."
-- Elon Musk

"A viper's nest of radical left Marxists who hate America...It's gotta go...A criminal organization. Time for it to die...We're shutting it down."
-- DOGE head Elon Musk on U.S. Agency for International Development

"All FBI employees will be protected against political retribution."
-- Kash Patel, at confirmation hearing on Thursday

"On Friday...the acting attorney general, Emil Bove... instructed the acting leadership of the F.B.I. to compile a list of all agents and F.B.I. staff 'assigned at any time to investigations and/or prosecutions' relating to the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.'"
-- NY Times

"Because I have common sense."
-- Trump, asked how he could blame diversity hiring for the plane-chopper collision before there had been time to investigate

"We identified and stopped $50M being sent to Gaza to buy condoms for Hamas. Fifty million. They used them as a method of making bombs. How about that?"
-- Trump, apparently mistaking the Gaza Strip for the province of Gaza in Mozambique, where condoms are part of a program to prevent STDs

"This administration believes that birthright citizenship is unconstitutional."
-- WH spokesperson Karoline Leavitt

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
-- 14th Amendment

"I have known Bobby my whole life... It's no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator...Siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life."
-- Caroline Kennedy on her cousin RFK Jr., Trump's nominee to head DHHS

"A lot of people say he's crazy. I think he's kind of crazy. But sometimes you need a little crazy."
-- Trump on Kash Patel, his pick to head the FBI

"I was the Main Justice lead prosecutor for Benghazi."
-- Kash Patel, lying in 2023

"It's like Daddy arrived and he's taking his belt off."
-- Mel Gibson, on Trump visiting fire zone in CA

"Daddy's back."
-- Rep. Byron Donalds on Trump inauguration

"Daddy's home."
-- Rep. Lauren Boebert

"When Dad gets home, you know what he says? 'You've been a bad little girl, and you're getting a vigorous spanking right now. And no, it's not going to hurt me more than it hurts you. You earned this.'"
-- Tucker Carlson, at October rally

"Nobody's ever probably seen anything like this, you can almost say, since the Second World War."
-- Trump, on damage from LA fires