"The time for genteel politics as usual has come to an end. It's time for the new right, it's time for Dark MAGA to truly take command."
-- Rep. Madison Cawthorn, upon losing primary

"In places like D.C., [aborted fetuses are] burned to power the lights of the city's homes and streets. The next time you turn on the light, think of the incinerators."
-- Congressional hearing testimony by anti-choice activist Catherine Glenn Foster of Americans for Life

"If [contraception] should ever come to a vote, I would have to side with it should not be legal... Sex ought to be between one man and one woman in the confines of marriage and open to life. Absolutely."
-- Trump-endorsed MI state rep. candidate Jacky Eubanks

"The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq -- I mean, of the Ukraine. Iraq, too. Anyway. I'm 75."
-- Dubya, while delivering a speech yesterday

"Dr. Oz should declare victory. It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they 'just happened to find.'"
-- Trump, on too-close-to-call-yet PA primary

"So when you go to bed at night, put your head on that soft pillow, you know Oz will be doing exactly what you want him to do if you were there next to him."
-- Dr. Mehmet Oz, in election-eve pitch to PA voters

"So what is hate speech? Well, it's speech your leaders hate. So because a mentally ill teenager murdered strangers, you cannot be allowed to express your political views out loud. That's what they're telling you."
-- Fox News' Tucker Carlson

"The White House, House Dems, and usual pedo grifters are so out of touch with the American people...The Republican Party is the party of parents, babies, grandparents, families, and patriotic Americans. Today's Democrat Party is the party of Socialists, illegals, criminals, Communist Truth Ministers, and media stenographers."
-- Rep. Elise Stefanik

"We've endorsed -- J.P., right? -- J.D. Mandel, and he's doing great."
-- Trump at rally, confusing the candidate he endorsed, J.D. Vance, with rival Josh Mandel

"The opponents of the letter Z must understand that they will not be spared. Everything is serious here: concentration camps, re-education, sterilization!”
-- prominent filmmaker and television host Karen Shakhnazarov, speaking on Russian state TV

"Why do we have laws in place that protect the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of eagles?"
-- Sen. Steve Daines, speaking on the Senate floor in opposition to bill guaranteeing the right to abortion under federal law