“I heard that he said something about groping women, and I’m thinking, Okay, No. 1, I think that’d be great. I like getting groped! I’m heterosexual. I’m a woman, and when a guy gropes me, I get groping on them!”— Jane Biddick, nymag.com
“Together we can save American JOBS, American LIVES, and AMERICAN FUTURES!”— Donald Trump, twitter.com
“I played a couple years with a guy who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.”— Chris Kluwe, vox.com
“The question they have to ask themselves is: If you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing him?”— Barack Obama, nytimes.com
“The danger is that a rising sense of insecurity will lead to more electoral victories for closed-world types. This is the gravest risk to the free world since communism. Nothing matters more than countering it.”— The Economist, economist.com
“The American government is a very volatile, dangerous mechanism, and Hillary has the most experience with it. It’s like if you were on a plane and you wanted to choose a pilot. You have one person, Hillary, who says, ‘Here’s my license. Here’s all the thousands of flights that I’ve flown. Here’s pla…”— Louis C.K., vulture.com
“And that voting for Trump is a way of saying ‘fuck it. Fuck them all’. I really get it. It’s a version of national Suicide. Or it’s like a big hit off of a crack pipe. Somehow we can’t help it. Or we know that if we vote for Trump our phones will be a reliable source of dopamine for the next four ye…”— Louis C.K., variety.com
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father.”— Ted Cruz, twitter.com
“Drumpf is much less magical. It’s the sound produced when a morbidly obese pigeon flies into the window of a foreclosed Old Navy. Drumpf. It’s the sound of a bottle of store-brand root beer falling off the shelf in a gas station minimart. And it may seem weird to bring up his ancestral name, but to…”— John Oliver, youtube.com
“Fiction can remind us — and because of the blood-sport nature of politics, we constantly need reminding — that the players in politics are first human beings.”— John Williams, nytimes.com
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“It cannot be emphasized enough that neoliberalism is not classical liberalism, or a return to a purer version of it, as is commonly misunderstood; it is a new thing, because the market, for one thing, is not at all free and untethered and dynamic in the sense that classical liberalism idealized it.…”— Anis Shivani, salon.com
“Bernie Sanders has been treated terribly by the Democrats—both with delegates and otherwise. He should show them and run as an Independent.”— Donald Trump, twitter.com