"There is no dictatorship here other than Donald Trump saying, 'This is not gonna happen.'"
-- Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Trump's ban of trans athletes

"CBS should lose its license, and the cheaters at '60 Minutes' should all be thrown out, and this disreputable 'NEWS' show should be immediately terminated."
-- Trump

"One word, groceries. Very simple word. Groceries. Like, almost, you know, who uses the word? I started using the word groceries."
-- Trump

"CFPB RIP"
-- tombstone emoji posted by Elon Musk

"The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has saved American consumers over $20B. No wonder the billionaires running the Trump White House want to eliminate it."
--  Rep. Brendan Boyle

"Very few in the bureaucracy actually work the weekend, so it's like the opposing team just leaves the field for two days!"
-- Elon Musk, on the federal workforce

"You go on a driving range in golf and hit hundreds of balls, thousands of hours. I've never seen a ball hit another ball... Balls going up all over the place, you never see them hit. It was amazing this could happen."
-- Trump, on DC plane-chopper crash

"The United States stands ready to lead and Make Gaza Beautiful Again."
-- Secretary of State Marco Rubio

"Gaza today is uninhabitable for at least the next 10 to 15 years."
-- Trump Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff

"The US will take over Gaza, and we will do a job with it...We'll own it...Everyone loves the idea."
-- Trump

"We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead."
-- Elon Musk, posting at 1:54 a.m. Monday

"We have to have pristine, perfect, beautiful law enforcement. And Kash is the one to do it...Who would have thought that the FBI could have been corrupted the way they were?... The FBI was a very corrupt institution. And I was a victim of it."
-- Trump

"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