Braying Jenny

“That is not your building. You don’t own that building. … That is the people’s building.” —"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg complaining about Trump’s White House renovations

Non Compos Mentis

“[Trump] is literally wiping his ass with the Constitution.” —Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey

Projection

“I don’t know what’s happened to the Republicans in the United States Senate. It’s as if they have all had their spines surgically removed.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren

“He needs to get off the sidelines, get off the golf course, and actually decide to end the shutdown that he’s created. … Donald Trump clearly wants the government shut down. He wants to inflict pain on the American people.” —House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries

“If anybody shouldn’t be paid, it’s Mike Johnson and the Republicans who are not doing their job.” —Rep. Jamie Raskin

The Bottom Line

“The American people would have an open government if Democrats were not terrified of their radical base.” —House Speaker Mike Johnson

“It is truly amazing how a program Democrats created and tax credits that they chose to sunset have now become the Republicans’ crisis. Republicans, in fact, never had anything to do with it. Democrats created ObamaCare — alone. They implemented the enhanced tax credits — alone. And they chose a sunset date for those tax credits — alone. Democrats are solely — solely — responsible for the ObamaCare tax credit cliff. And yet they’re trying to pin this disaster on Republicans while at the very same time they’re asking Republicans to bail them out.” —Senate Majority Leader John Thune

A Blind Squirrel Finds a Nut

“The right-wingers — say what you want about them, but they talk to you. … Charlie Kirk and I certainly don’t agree on much politically, but he sat here. He’s a human being. He’s not a monster. And I liked him. I like them all. They’re all nice people when you meet them in person.” —Bill Maher

Re: “No Kings” Protestors

“Listen, you guys spend your time however you want. It’s a free country, not a monarchy.” —Scott Jennings

For the Record

“Here’s something I learned fairly quickly in the political debate: The media downplays huge conservative crowds as ‘a few thousand,’ while small leftist crowds are described as ‘hundreds of thousands.’” —Gary Bauer

The Monroe Doctrine

“Helping friends in Latin America weather the storms that come with reforming stagnant socialist economies is a smart long-term investment for Washington, not just in our hemispheric security but in our prosperity as well.” —Daniel McCarthy