Insight: “The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” —Herbert Sebastien Agar (1897-1980)

Unity! Part I: “What’s become crystal clear is that Biden has redefined bipartisan. It isn’t ‘how many Republicans I’ve got.’ It’s about, ‘How many Republican voters or mayors and governors can I get to support my stuff?’ And Washington is slow to catch up to the Biden definition.” —Rahm Emanuel

Unity! Part II: “If you looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary, I think it would say support from Republicans and Democrats. It doesn’t say the Republicans have to be in Congress.” —Anita Dunn, a senior Biden adviser

A trip down memory lane: “President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the United States Senate, the United States Congress, a proposal to pack the Court. It was totally within his right to do that: he violated no law, he was legalistically, absolutely correct — but it was a bonehead idea. It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. And it put in question, for an entire decade, the independence of the most significant body — including the Congress, in my view — the most significant body in this country: the Supreme Court of the United States of America.” —Joe Biden in 1983

Friendly fire I: “We better be very, very careful in saying that we need to expand the Supreme Court.” —former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Friendly fire II: “This defund the police was just a terrible drag on the Democratic Party. It really was. Don’t kid yourself.” —Democrat strategist James Carville

Friendly fire III: “You’re not a one-person show. This is the Congress of the United States.” —House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to “The Squad”

Braying jenny: “Mitch McConnell is not a force for good in the country. He is an enabler of some of the worst stuff, and an instigator of some of it on his own.” —Nancy Pelosi

Grand delusions: “[January 6 is] a day that should be remembered in America because our democracy was at stake. This was an attack on our democracy as much as Pearl Harbor was an attack on our country.” —Congressman Steve Cohen

Race bait: “There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that’s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars.” — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg

Non compos mentis: “Anti-Asian racism has the same source as anti-Black racism: white supremacy. So when a Black person attacks an Asian person, the encounter is fueled perhaps by racism, but very specifically by white supremacy. White supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate it.” —University of Colorado Boulder professor Jennifer Ho

And last… “When the Founders wrote the 2nd Amendment, all they had were muskets and there was no such thing as assault rifles. If they had known about them, they would have been like, ‘Those sound awesome. Everyone should get those [machine gun sounds].’” —Frank J. Fleming