"Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn't get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it."
-- Conservative activist Jack Posobiec, to cheering CPAC audience

"Amen!"
-- Steve Bannon, in response

"We're going to take over Washington, D.C. We're going to federalize. We're going to have very powerful crime, and you're going to be proud of it again."
-- Trump

"This, my friends, is what we call a Freudian slip."
-- Mary Trump, on her uncle's remark

"I've become an expert at law."
-- Trump

"It is a form of Navalny. It is a form of communism, of fascism."
-- Trump, on being convicted of fraud and penalized

"My father built the skyline of New York City. And this is the thanks he gets?"
-- Eric Trump

"The Poles overplayed their hand and forced Hitler to start World War II with them. Why did World War II begin on September 1, 1939, in Poland? It didn't want to negotiate. Hitler had no other choice but to start bringing his plans to life in Poland."
-- Putin

"It's very hard to be sarcastic. When I purposely interposed [sic] names, they said, 'He didn't know Pelosi from Nikki'...They make a big deal out of it. I said, 'No, no, I think they both stink.'"
-- Trump

"Every leader kills people. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people."
-- Tucker Carlson, when asked about Alexei Navalny, opposition leaders and journalists in Russia

"Virtually every legal scholar says they don't understand it, there's no crime. 'Even if he was guilty of something, there is no crime.'"
-- Trump on his hush-money case

"It's very hard to be sarcastic. When I purposely interposed [sic] names, they say 'He didn't know Pelosi from Nikki.'...They make a big deal out of it. I said, 'No, no, I think they both stink.'"
-- Trump on having said, re Jan 6.: "Nikki Haley was in charge of security"