"We have to stop allowing the Democrats to abuse us. It's like we're a beaten spouse."
-- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

"The district attorney of New York, under the auspices and direction of the Department of Injustice in Washington DC, was investigating me for something that is not a crime, not a misdemeanor. Not an affair. I never liked Horseface. I never liked...I never...It's just not...Terrible. That wouldn't be the one. There is no one. We have a great First Lady."
-- Trump at his Waco rally

“I don’t think people should protest this, no. I think President Trump, if you talk to him, he doesn’t believe in that either."
-- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, on Trump's "PROTEST! PROTEST! PROTEST!" post 

"How do you indict a person who hasn't done anything wrong, and you know that person hasn't done anything wrong???...Everybody knows I'm 100% innocent...It was all made up...Our country is being destroyed, as they tell us to be peaceful!"
-- Trump

"We physically took control of the Capitol building in a hand-to-hand hostile takeover. We occupied the Capitol and shut down the Government -- we shut down their stolen election shenanigans...My buddy...and I were in the first two hundred to rush up the steps and inside after the Vanguard had clashed hard with the police and had made them retreat. The military isn't going to save the Democrat Communists. They are done. Today we brought our Government to its knees with no weapons. Now we're all going back armed for war..."
-- Jan. 6 Facebook post by William Calhoun, found guilty this week for his actions that day

"It's sort of like the Supreme Court definition of pornography: you know it when you see it...It could be a feeling, it could be a sense."
-- Fox News host Dana Perino on the definition of "woke"

"If you don't love your children so much -- and there are some people that don't, and maybe deservedly so -- it won't matter because frankly, you don't have to leave 'em anything. Thank you very much, have fun."
-- Trump

"We know that President Trump is innocent. People are not stupid."
-- Rep. Lauren Boebert

"I did NOTHING wrong in the 'Horseface' case."
-- Trump

"My husband made this comparison: You know that GIF of the monkey sticking its finger up its butt and smelling it? Every day, there's that person on the internet. And today it's me."
-- writer Bethany Mandel, on widely-posted clip of her response when asked to define "woke"