"I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people couldn't do... I think it always comes down to the role of government."
-- Nikki Haley, asked what caused the Civil War

"It was about slavery."
-- Biden

27
-- number of bills passed by Congress in 2023

906
-- number of bills passed by the 80th Congress, dubbed by Truman the "Do Nothing Congress"

"You're going to have a crash the likes of which you haven't seen because of what they are doing. It's going to be scary... The stockmarket is good because they think Trump is going to win the election. Whatever good they have right now is...coming off the fumes of what we left them."
-- Trump, on the economy

"Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden's ONLY HOPE, Deranged Jack Smith...[and World Leaders], both good and bad, none of which are as evil and 'sick' as the THUGS we have inside our Country who... are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
-- Trump social media post

"We all want Daddy Trump back."
-- pro golfer John Daly

"Under Crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted like nothing this nation has ever seen before. Catholics in particular are being targeted and evangelicals are surely on the watch list as well."
-- Trump

"I'm not an insurrectionist...Crooked Joe Biden is!"
-- Trump

"I don't call them prisoners. I call them hostages."
-- Trump, on January 6th participants serving time after being convicted of crimes

"I think Democrats wake up every morning and they look at the calendar on the iPhone and it says 'January 6th.' The date never changes. And then they get into an electric vehicle and go get an abortion."
-- former Trump WH adviser Kellyanne Conway

"It's a fascist system run by the Biden regime."
-- Rudy Giuliani, on being convicted and fined for defaming Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss