“I’m not getting into a spitting match with him. He can spit further than I can.”— Barbara Bush, usatoday.com
“Putin endorsed him, for heaven’s sake. Putin the killer! Putin the worst! He endorsed Trump! That’s an endorsement you don’t want.”— Barbara Bush, usatoday.com
“I just don’t get turned on by being against. I really get excited to be for. That’s what moves me. It’s important to defeat Trump, but that’s not exciting to me. What’s exciting to me is for the United States to lead the world, in making sure that the generations that follow us can live here.”— Beto O'Rourke, vanityfair.com
“My sense is, following some success that I had in Congress, and working with Republicans to actually get things signed into law, including both President Obama and President Trump’s administrations, that I may have an ability to work with people who think differently than I do, come to a different c…”— Beto O'Rourke, vanityfair.com
“I always ask the question, like what? You know, like what is he undermining exactly? You know what – what democratic freedoms have been undermined? We just had an election where we switched power in the House. Democracy is at work. People are voting in record numbers.”— Dan Crenshaw, townhall.com
“While Trump says he’s keeping the government closed and threatening to declare an emergency in the name of building his ridiculous wall, it’s also a convenient means for him to engage in a massive power grab as Robert Mueller’s report, along with further indictments and an avalanche of inevitable De…”— Bob Cesca, salon.com
“Why should anyone play on Trump's terms? Doing so is a recipe for metastasizing Trumpism into the normal state of the modern ‘battlefield.’”— Bob Cesca, salon.com
“Trump’s concept of how health insurance works is unclear since he never talks specifics (because he doesn’t know specifics).”— Bob Cesca, salon.com
“A man who’s content to be hated, and who indeed seeks out the hatred of the world, is capable of anything and should never be trusted or enabled.”— Bob Cesca, salon.com
“Not unlike Trump himself, Roger Stone is a real-life Batman villain with less humor and more tricks up his Day-Glo sleeve. He’s the manifestation of nihilism and disruption in an age of unapologetic digital trolls. He’s patient zero for Trumpism and all of its damaging influence. In case I’m not bei…”— Bob Cesca, salon.com
“On the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear: The President's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them.”— Kamala Harris, cnn.com
“Humility is something that unfortunately we have lost. I think in many ways America is losing its conscience as a result of the hate and the vitriol and the divisiveness that is being spewed by this president and his enablers. I believe that the majority of Americans do not hate each other.”— Howard Schultz, ca.sports.yahoo.com
“In today's political environment, your feelings about Trump actually have an impact on how people feel about you.”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“Our politics will continue to degrade. Anybody who thinks President Trump is the sole performer under the big top should realize that the circus has three rings, and Democrats occupy at least one of them.”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“Once we believe that Trump is either the Great Satan or the Great God, it's no wonder that fringe actors on either side are willing to take extreme measures to harm or ‘protect’ him.”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“The students of Covington Catholic High School are accused of mobbing and mocking a Native American veteran. This incident supports the broader narrative that Trump supporters, religious Americans and young white men are emissaries of racism and toxic masculinity. Then it turns out that the video ha…”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“This is pure ends-justify-the-means logic. And the means are pushing falsehood. The notion here seems to be that Trump is helping America avoid perdition, and thus must be given leeway to lie; if we didn’t allow him to lie, the left would continue to do so, and then they’d win and drive us straight…”— Ben Shapiro, dailywire.com
“Trump won the nomination because he was anti-left, not because of any political viewpoints, he was slapping people on the left and people on the right went, ‘Yeah, those people need to be slapped!’”— Ben Shapiro, nytimes.com