“The president's tweet this morning ... is heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking and it lacks knowledge about what the role is of FEMA and others in the time of natural disaster.”— Nancy Pelosi, washingtonexaminer.com
“Because it does create this idea that, in the same way that I hated ― Sarah Palin used to do this all the time ― ‘Out here in real America.’ There’s no real America. It’s just, it is what it is. Generally people are just trying to get to work. And I think the key for us is to be like, who needs a ri…”— Jon Stewart, huffingtonpost.com
“If [Trump] tries to deport dreamers, then that’s where everyone has to go, to protect them. If he tries to make a Muslim Registry, then everyone has to go there and help them. You have to find the people that are going be most in jeopardy, I think, and put your attentions on them because now it’s ab…”— Jon Stewart, huffingtonpost.com
“[Hillary Clinton] was an unqualified Secretary of State because the way she handled classified material. His [Trump's] selection for Secretary of State will be David Petraeus, who pled guilty to mishandling classified material. He said she was unqualified because she gave a speech to Goldman Sachs.…”— Jon Stewart, huffingtonpost.com
“This is what I don’t understand about Washington—again, I’m not from this place. But the places I come from we don’t deal with that kind of petty nonsense.”— Rex Tillerson, slate.com
“If America slides into authoritarianism, the history of the Republican Party’s complicity could be titled, ‘I wasn’t paying attention. I’m just worried about taxes.'”— Jonathan Chait, nymag.com
“In our legal order, it is for Congress, not the courts, to write new laws… a judge who likes every outcome he reaches, is very likely a bad judge, stretching for results he prefers, rather than those the law demands.”— Neil Gorsuch, heavy.com
“In the balance of my professional life, I’ve had the privilege of working as a practicing lawyer and teacher…practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw too that when we judges don our robes it doesn’t make us any smarter. But it does serve as a reminder of what’s expected of us. Imparti…”— Neil Gorsuch, heavy.com
“The Supreme Court’s work is vital not just to a region of the country but to the whole. Vital to the protection of the people’s liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution. The greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.”— Neil Gorsuch, heavy.com
“You’ve entrusted me with the most solemn assignment. Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed, I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.”— Neil Gorsuch, heavy.com
“Mueller is too thorough and taking too long. This thing is seriously taking forever.”— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, foreignpolicy.com
“My guess is that these documents will show that the only true statement Sanders has made on the subject is that she doesn't, in fact, know many people at the FBI.”— Benjamin Wittes, lawfareblog.com
“When you’re part of a team, you’re part of a team. That doesn’t mean everyone in the White House has homogeneous views — we don’t, and I think that’s good and healthy —but that doesn’t mean we’re publicly undermining each and this administration.”— Ivanka Trump, ft.com
“This is what it looks like when the White House itself plays in these waters. It’s the stuff of petty strong-man dictatorships for the President to pronounce an individual guilty of a crime without having to proffer any evidence, offer a legal theory, or convince a jury.”— Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, lawfareblog.com
“Certainly not every Trump voter is a white supremacist, just as not every white person in the Jim Crow South was a white supremacist. But every Trump voter felt it acceptable to hand the fate of the country over to one.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“Asserting that Trump’s rise was primarily powered by cultural resentment and economic reversal has become de rigueur among white pundits and thought leaders. But evidence for this is, at best, mixed.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“White Americans elected an orcish reality-TV star who insists on taking his intelligence briefings in picture-book form.”— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com
“What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately. There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their, certainly through their television sets — any number of different ways, and microwaves that turn into came…”— Kellyanne Conway, huffingtonpost.com
“Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck. What-- You're saying it's a falsehood. And they're giving Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that.”— Kellyanne Conway, washingtonpost.com
“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby…”— Alexander Hamilton, founders.archives.gov