"My theory on why he likes the dictators so much is that's who he is."
-- former Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly

"There's nobody that's better, smarter, or a better leader than Victor Orbán. He's fantastic... He's a non-controversial figure because he says, 'This is the way it's going to be,' and that's the end of it right? He's the boss."
-- Trump, hosting the Hungarian prime minister at Mar-a-Lago

"You have a million people every couple of months coming into this country who know nothing about God."
-- Sen. Tommy Tuberville

"If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion."
-- Mike Flynn, former Trump national security adviser and retired Army lieutenant general

"Not enough people are sounding the alarm, that based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented. In fact, we are seeing the opposite among too many in the news media, the political leaders, and among the public. There is this focus on Biden's gaffes or other things that are well within the normal limits of aging. By comparison, Trump appears to be showing gross signs of dementia. This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing."
-- Dr. John Gartner, psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School

"We're a third-world country at our borders, and we're a third-world country at our elections. We are a nation in decline, we are a failing nation... We are a nation that has lost its way."
-- Trump, in Super Tuesday victory speech

"You're all people that have a lot of money. You're rich as hell. We're gonna give you tax cuts."
-- Trump to gathering of wealthy donors at Mar-a-Lago in December

"People who are coming from parts unknown, countries that you've never heard of. Languages that nobody in this country speaks. We don't even have teachers of some of these languages. Who would think that we have languages that are like from the planet Mars? Nobody, nobody, knows how to, you know, speak it."
-- Trump on undocumented immigrants crossing our border

"Eighty-two percent of the country understands that it was a rigged election, okay?...They got away with something; they're never going to get away with it again."
-- Trump, making up a number

"When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. 'My hero!' It is really creepy...Trump is in awe of Putin."
-- former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull

"If God came down, and God was the vote checker, I believe we would win California."
-- Trump