Insight: “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)

Hell hath frozen over: “[Single-payer health care] is, administratively, the simplest thing to do, but to convert to it? Thirty trillion dollars. Now, how do you pay for that?” —Nancy Pelosi

Non Compos Mentis: “I don’t know if Michael Cohen is truthful, but if he is, he should get the Congressional Medal of Honor for finally … moving us toward the end of this nightmare.” —Alec Baldwin

Non Compos Mentis II: “If you want a party that is moving closer to the center or whose voters say they want to be closer to center, that would be the Democrats.” —Washington Post “conservative” blogger Jennifer Rubin on a party so extreme that it just voted to block a bill outlawing infanticide

Braying Jackass: “[George W. Bush] and I had our differences, but no one ever questioned his patriotism. Our battles were strictly political battles. There’s no question in my mind that George Bush would be Babe Ruth in this league that he’s in with Donald Trump in the league. Donald Trump wouldn’t make the team.” —Harry Reid

Alpha Jackass: “There is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights, and that includes the vice president.” —Joe Biden after getting blasted for calling Mike Pence a “decent guy”

And last… “The camera-preening and antics of members of Congress at televised hearings like [Cohen’s] is genuinely embarrassing for the country. You would not trust this crew to search for that missing sock in the dryer, never mind unravel a complicated criminal conspiracy.” —Jim Geraghty