"We've made every decision correctly. We may have some embers or ashes or we may have some flames coming, but we'll put them out. We'll stomp them out...We understand the disease now."
-- Trump on COVID-19, during the week 14 states reported their highest-ever seven-day average of new infections

"It isn't over yet...We're still at the beginning of really understanding."
-- Dr. Anthony Fauci

"Even the president himself -- it's not the same thing as what happened to George Floyd, but it's horrific. He was a vicim of crooked cops. Now, again, not the same circumstnces, I'm not making any comparisons."
-- Fox News' Sean Hannity

"Things were so bad, the Secret Service recommended the President go down to the bunker."
-- AG William Barr, on the May 29th demonstrations outside the WH

"I was there for a tiny, little short period of time. And it was much more for an inspection...I went down. I looked at it...[The Secret Service] said it would be a good time to go down, take a look, because maybe sometime you're going to need it."
-- Trump

"Mitt Romney can say three words outside on Pennsylvania Avenue, but I would note this -- that President Trump won 8% of the black vote."
-- WH Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on "Black Lives Matter"

"They send out...millions and millions of ballots to anybody in California that's breathing...and kids go and they raid the mailboxes, and they hand them to people that are signing the ballots down the end of the street."
-- Trump

"He lies. He lies about things. And he gets away with it, because people will not hold him accountable."
-- Colin Powell on Trump

"She doesn't know what she's doing. And she's like a dictator. Why isn't she opening up this state?"
-- Trump on Maine Gov. Janet Mills

"They didn't use tear gas."
-- Trump, on clearing of peaceful protesters with tear gas on Monday to prepare for Bible photo op

"The first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people." 
-- former Secretary of Defense Gen. Jim Mattis

"I agree with him."
-- former Trump WH chief of staff John Kelly

"I've fought in overseas wars. I never believed the constitution to be under threat until recently....June 1, 2020. Remember that date. It may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment."
-- retired Gen. John Allen

"You just don't do that, Mr. President. It isn't cool! "
-- televangelist Pat Robertson on Trump threat to deploy military in U.S. cities, and calling governors "jerks"

"I remain confident in the professionalism of our men and women in uniform. They will serve with skill and with compassion. They will obey lawful orders. But I am less confident in the soundness of the orders they will be given by this commander in chief, and I am not convinced that the conditions on our streets, as bad as they are, have risen to the level that justifies a heavy reliance on military troops....This is not the time for stunts. This is the time for leadership."
-- from statement by Mike Mullen, 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff