“This is a city that in an average year will lose 18 people over the course of the year. In one day, 20 people killed in a hateful, racist, murderous rage, in part, inspired by this president. So we’ve got to ask everyone in this country, I could care less about your party. You got to stand up and be…”— Beto O'Rourke, rev.com
“What do you think? You know the shit he’s been saying. He’s been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I don’t know … Members of the press, what the fuck? Hold on a second. It’s these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he’s been doing in this coun…”— Beto O'Rourke, rev.com
“I'm saying that President Trump has a lot to do with what happened in El Paso yesterday. Anybody who begins their campaign for the presidency by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Anyone who as president describes asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border as an infestation or an invasi…”— Beto O'Rourke, cbsnews.com
“There's an old Ojibwe saying that a true leader makes decisions not for this generation but for seven generations from now. This president can't make—keep his decision for seven minutes from now.”— Amy Klobuchar, startribune.com
“Three things to know about me. First, I listen to people and that's how I get things done. That is my focus. I have a track record of passing over 100 bills where I'm the lead Democrat. And that is because I listened and I acted. And I think that's important in a president. Everything else just melt…”— Amy Klobuchar, startribune.com
“He`s moving this nation backward in a very tangible way and making life more difficult not only for the four Congresswomen, certainly for them, but also for school children that are out there that may be black or they may be Muslim or maybe Latino or Asian-American.”— Julian Castro, msnbc.com
“It is astonishing that this president still has not released his taxes, even though he said at one point that he would and then he said he was under audit. Now it's gone so far that Congress is looking for those tax returns, and I hope they get them, because it's clear that he has something to hide.”— Julian Castro, transcripts.cnn.com
“The cruelty of this administration never seems to end. You know, a year ago, this administration told us that as Americans if we would just be cruel enough to separate little children from their parents that that would deter more families from coming to our southern border and, in fact, the opposite…”— Julian Castro, transcripts.cnn.com
“His behavior and his comments are disgusting they are racist. We have not seen at least in the last 50 years, a politician who has made his career as successfully as Donald Trump by trying to divide Americans along racial, ethnic, and religious lines.”— Julian Castro, msnbc.com
“I also come from the industrial Midwest, the exact part of the country where Democrats had trouble getting our message through in recent years, which is part of how we got the president that we have now. And I'm someone who's committed to taking on the flaws in our systems at a very basic level. Our…”— Pete Buttigieg, cbsnews.com
“This president is yet another sad chapter, but what we have done all the time as Americans, black and white, from different backgrounds, we've always joined together and beaten those demagogues hate—hate mongers and fear mongers and I think that's where Donald Trump will be relegated.”— Cory Booker, cbsnews.com
“I'd beat him by just pointing out who I am, and who he is, and what we're for and what he's against. This guy's a divider-in-chief. This guy is acting with racist policies. This guy is moving to—foment hate, to split. That's the only way he can sustain himself.”— Joe Biden, transcripts.cnn.com
“His own FBI director recently testified to Congress that extreme right-wing groups, white nationalists posed the greatest threat to racially motivated domestic terrorism. And what has Trump done? He’s poured fuel on the fire.”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“It is both clear language and in code, this president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. His low energy, vacant eyed mouthing the words written for him condemning white supremacists this week I don’t believe fooled anyone at home or abroad. His energetic embrace, an energetic e…”— Joe Biden, rev.com
“I mean, the idea that I'd be intimidated by Donald Trump. He's the bully that I knew my whole life. He's the bully that I've always stood up to. He's the bully who used to make fun of as a kid and I'd stutter, and I smacked him in the mouth.”— Joe Biden, transcripts.cnn.com
“That devil wants to kill my son. You going to take an ad out about killing my son.”— Julian Breece, Ava DuVernay, Sharon Salaam, Aunjanue Ellis, imdb.com
“A private citizen who’s a phony. He’s a phony. I wasn’t afraid of him at all. I never even thought of it. Now people are saying, 'Well, aren’t you afraid because he’s the president?' I’m like, 'No.' He doesn’t have any kind of real power. Everybody with an IQ of over 100—he loves the IQs—can underst…”— Rosie O'Donnell, amazon.com
“This is a man who has deep-seated animosity and hatred, who feels so small, who works so hard to make others feel beneath him and so I think it is even ludicrous for us to have the space to dignify what he says with an answer.”— Ilhan Omar, cbsnews.com
“Speaking out, standing up for who I am, and fighting back against anyone who tries to put me down will make me prouder than any trophy.”— Lucy Diavolo, teenvogue.com