From the Loony Left
“One of the challenges we face globally is old men clinging to power.” —Barack Obama, who backed the non compos mentis Joe Biden

“[Impeachment 3.0 is] about setting a standard.” —California Congressman Ro Khanna

“We’re going to aggressively go after people who have ripped off the American taxpayer; who have DOGE’d this country and fired people who were doing incredible work; who have shot fishermen in the Caribbean; who have killed American citizens as rogue ICE officers have killed fathers who are immigrants; who have dragged us into an illegal war. Among that list ... are people like Elon Musk.” —Ro Khanna

“What we’ve seen ... from Elon Musk is a financial commitment to the destabilization of working-class Americans’ lives.” —New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

“We must abolish ICE. This is not an extremist position.” —New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Donald Trump would resign if they wanted to go after the rapists.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“I have not seen any evidence of [ObamaCare] fraud at all.” —Congressman Brendan Boyle

“As Democrats, we’ve repeatedly made clear that we actually are authentically interested in dealing with waste, fraud, or abuse.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

“We can expect continuing efforts by Donald Trump to try to rig this election.” —Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen

“[Trump] wants you to believe that your vote won’t count.” —Kamala Harris

“The W.N.B.A., as a league, should lead the charge for making space for trans women in women’s sports.” —The New York Times’s Roxane Gay

“We are the normal ones.” —Hasan Piker

“What followed [Oct. 7] was an onslaught on Palestinians in Gaza with a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I’ve witnessed in my years as secretary-general.” —UN Secretary-General António Guterres (Guterres apparently forgot about the 600,000 killed in Ethiopia, the 377,000 killed in Yemen, the hundreds of thousands killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine, and the 150,000 killed in Sudan during his tenure.)

Obliviousness Award
“The Media Begins to Turn Against Trump.” —Heather Cox Richardson

From the Reasonable Right
“$4 gas and $6 diesel is unacceptable. ... But it’s not enough to vote for a communist.” —House Majority Whip Tom Emmer

“The only way to a better America is more energy.” —Energy Secretary Chris Wright

“It would help if the president would stay focused on cost of living. And I would like to see him give a nationwide address — or let [Marco] Rubio and General [Dan] Caine do it — and explain why we went into Iran, why we’re winning, and how we’re going to get out.” —Louisiana Senator John Kennedy

“[Iran] has taken a position of punishing the entire world’s economy because of its pursuit for a nuclear weapon. President Trump’s not going to stand for it.” —U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz

“[Trump] has done everything that he said he was going to do. ... He said during the campaign. ‘The Western Hemisphere — this is our backyard. And we are not going to tolerate bad behavior in our backyard.” —Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick

“We need to get the message out very clearly that your economic situation does feel worse in many areas ... because of left-wing policies.” —Texas Congressman Brandon Gill

“The more illegals we deport, the more affordable the lives of Americans will become.” —Brandon Gill

“I don’t feel like the Republic is particularly threatened [by Trump]... What is significantly more threatening is a Democratic Party that is pledging systematic change to the way that the country itself works.” —Ben Shapiro

“You punish bad Republicans in the primaries. You vote to save the country from leftists in the general. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.” —Nick Freitas

“Unless Jesus himself is on the ballot, every election for all time will be between the lesser of two evils.” —Joel Berry