“For speaking at the Republican convention, I got attacked way more by liberal gay people than by conservative Christian people.”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“One of my good friends said, ‘Peter, do you realize how crazy this is, how everybody thinks this is crazy?’ I was like: ‘Well, why am I wrong? What’s substantively wrong with this?’ And it all got referred back to ‘Everybody thinks Trump’s really crazy.’ So it’s like there’s a shortcut, which is: ‘I…”— Peter Thiel, nytimes.com
“Insofar as the definition of ‘white supremacist’ includes Bernie Sanders, the term is not going to retain significant stigma, or even be understood by most of America. Insofar as attempts to point that out are met, by academics on social media or opinion journalists at left-of-center outlets, with t…”— Conor Friedersdorf, theatlantic.com
“We’re building Trump’s coalition for him by basically treating [his supporters] as if they’re all ‘deplorables’ and irredeemables or stupid people who we need to fix, and that’s the problem. That’s the elitism. We are operating — listen, both parties suck right now because the liberals think we’re t…”— Van Jones, salon.com
“I do not mean to pick on Gibson, a real person after all, but I am tired of being told by him and others that I am not quite a genuine American because I did not vote for Trump or because I live on one of the coasts. I want to point out to Gibson that there are more of us than there are of him. At l…”— Richard Cohen, realclearpolitics.com
“I thought [Trump supporters] would fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up.…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.com
“The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”— Salena Zito, theatlantic.com
“You cannot polarize and proselytize at the same time. You have to give people room to be wrong without demonizing them. If they are ‘wrong’ about something and the people who are wrong about that something are ‘evil’, they will never be open to being wrong because no one considers themselves to be e…”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“Friendly reminder that Paris Hilton grew her inherited wealth at 5 times the rate and 3 times faster than Donald Trump.”— Shon Faye, twitter.com
“2016 is a year that has challenged political norms and traditional coalitions, something that is evident in Gaston County. The faultlines in America, this election has shown, are between white and nonwhite and increasingly between those with a college education and those without it.”— Clare Malone, fivethirtyeight.com
“Gaston County is made up of cities and towns filled with modest homes and businesses. Most of its roughly 200,000 residents are white, and more than half of people aged 25 and over have attended at least some college. In 2012, Mitt Romney won the suburban county easily, 62 percent to President Obama…”— Clare Malone, fivethirtyeight.com
“Donald Trump should drop out. GOP should engage rules for emergency replacement.”— Mark Kirk, twitter.com
“Donald Trump’s behavior makes him unacceptable as a candidate for president, and I won’t vote for him. As disappointed as I’ve been with his antics throughout this campaign, I thought supporting the nominee was the best thing for our country and our party. Now, it is abundantly clear that the best t…”— Rep. Martha Roby, twitter.com
“I moved on her [a married woman] actually, she was down in Palm Beach and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try to fuck her, she was married … and I moved on her very heavily. I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture and I told her 'I'll show you where you can get some nice f…”— Donald Trump, nbcnews.com
“I'm automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it's like a magnet. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab 'em by the pussy.”— Donald Trump, nbcnews.com
“I don't care how sick you are. I don't care if you just came back from the doctor and he gave you the worst possible prognosis, meaning it's over. Doesn't matter. Hang out till November 8. Get out and vote. I say kiddingly, but I mean it.”— Donald Trump, timesofmalta.com