"I'm your wall between the American Dream and chaos."
-- Trump at rally in Bemidji, MN

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."
-- Sen. Mitch McConnell, 10 months before the 2016 election

"President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate."
-- McConnell, hours after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 46 days before the 2020 election

"I don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people."
-- Trump, on the upside of COVID-19

"It'll go away without the vaccine...Over a period of time. And you'll develop, like, a herd mentality. It's going to be herd-developed. And that's gonna happen. That will all happen...I really believe we're rounding the corner."
-- Trump on COVID-19

"I'm on a stage, and it's very far away. I'm not at all concerned."
-- Trump defending large Nevada rally

"A homicidal assembly to help him get reelected instead of protecting the health and welfare of the people of the United States including his own supporters, whose lives he is willing to sacrifice."
-- Carl Bernstein

"COVID-19 is real...Presidents should set examples."
-- Ari Fleischer, Dubya's WH press secretary

Trump, during CA discussion of climate change:
"It will start getting cooler. You just watch."

Wade Crowfoot, Secretary for Natural Resources:
"I wish science agreed with you."

Trump:
"I don't think science knows, actually."

"President Trump is taking reckless and selfish actions that are putting countless lives in danger...As usual, he doesn't believe the rules apply to him...That's an insult to every Nevadan who has followed the directives, made sacrifices..."
-- Gov. Steve Sisolak, on Trump's large indoor rally

"He tried to stop us. He couldn't."
-- Trump on Sisolak

"We all do stupid things at 17."
-- Donald Trump Jr. on alleged Kenosha shooter

"[Churchill] always spoke with calmness...They wanted me to come out scream 'People are dying! We're dying!' No, no. We did it just the right way."
-- Trump, on his publicly down-playing COVID-19 danger

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind...many, many long months of struggle and of suffering."
-- Churchill

"The President never down-played the virus."
-- WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany

"I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic."
-- Trump to Bob Woodward, March 19th