Quotes

If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm gonna do.

[in 2016] I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler.

[in 2022] I gotta be honest with you, I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another.

[3/3/25, on plans for European peacekeeping forces in Ukraine] If you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give America [an] economic upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years.

We're effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too. It's just a basic fact: You look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC, the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people that don't have a direct stake in it.

Our message to Denmark is very simple, you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. You have underinvested in the people of Greenland and you have underinvested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful land mass, filled with incredible people.

[to the moderators of the 2024 Vice President debate] The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact check.

[to Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a meeting in the White House] Have you said thank you once?

[on the Young Republicans' group chat messages] The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do. And I really don't want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke - telling a very offensive, stupid joke - is cause to ruin their lives.

[in 2016] Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office.