From the Loony Left
"Those who oppose sanctuary jurisdictions do so in the mistaken belief that those cities are providing sanctuary to violent criminals, and that's just not true. ... Communities that adopt sanctuary city policies do so in order to improve public safety." —Pennsylvania Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
"Birth tourism is illegal, is wrong, and is rare. That is not really what today's hearing is about. What this is about is a strategy to codify the Great Replacement Theory in law, to further codify white supremacy, and to weaponize the entire federal government in pursuance of it." —Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
"I have read news stories about when ultraconservative people get into high-power positions ... that hate crimes increase, that really divisive rhetoric increase [sic]." —Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon
"They're taking over [Venezuela's] oil reserves and wanting to sell them off. That is the epitome of what communism is." —Angie Nixon
"They're going to claim we are socialists or communists or whatever sounds scariest in a headline, and we'll say back to them, 'Is that the best you can do?' These are the same old scare tactics." —Texas Senate candidate James Talarico
"I was at a diplomatic function. I had an ambassador to one of our allies in Europe come up to me and say, 'What’s happening right now, Jim, reminds me of Germany in the 1930s.' And there was another ambassador from another U.S. ally standing next to this ambassador, and that ambassador nodded, 'Yep, yep,' and they were both saying the same thing." —former CNN reporter Jim Acosta
From the Reasonable Right
"Remember that the same guy who defends literal terrorism is maybe not going to have your best interests at heart when he gets to Washington, DC." —JD Vance regarding Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
"The most offensive thing that's going on now with these guys, and Nixon in Florida and El-Sayed, they're trying to equate themselves to Jesus. They're calling themselves radicals. 'Jesus was a radical. I'm a radical.' Using the same word doesn't make them equivalent. Jesus was radical because he said in a theological explosion that ... 'only through me will you enter the kingdom of heaven.' ... But Jesus wasn't advocating the abolition of the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, the presidency, elimination of the Department of War — all these things that they're talking about. These people are radical for a different reason. They're radical because they're advocating for things that are contrary to the United States Constitution." —former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
"The same administration that let rapists, gang members and terrorists cross our borders day after day after day ordered law enforcement personnel to spy on the 'real threat to America' — Catholics. ... Unbelievably, the agents who used the power of the federal government to go after people because of their biblically-based values were not punished. They got positive reviews on their annual performance reports, enabling them to earn more money. Thankfully, Kash Patel fired them when he took over the FBI." —Gary Bauer
"Legend has it Lenin once said capitalists would sell communists the very rope they would use to hang them. Today's militant left is counting on capitalists and constitutionalists to provide them the legal protections they need to incite and perpetrate violence. But the Trump administration refuses to play along." —Daniel McCarthy
"Here's the dynamic that's at play in America: Democrats win when they effectively obfuscate what they believe. Republicans win when we effectively communicate what we believe." —Texas Senator Ted Cruz
"Yes, we should deport people who hate America and aren’t citizens. And no, this should not be controversial." —Ben Shapiro
