Quotes

(This is just a very small selection from an unfortunately HUGE category of vile right wing lunacy, idiocy, and hatred.)

A database of the many false and misleading claims and lies made by Trump as president.

Donald Trump’s Most Offensive and Outrageous Quotes

Crazy Right Wing Quotes

“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress. If you were a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you were a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”

— Mick Mulvaney, who was a leading conservative in the House until Trump tapped him to be the White House budget director. He's explicit about pay-to-play corruption.

“I would rather have complete control of the social safety net given to the states.”

— Rep. Patrick McHenry, who said out loud what most Republicans only say in private: He wants to end Social Security and Medicare,

''We're very excited. It's exactly what we wanted, and we got it.''

— Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) on the government shutdown

''[Obama] wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black. Somebody asked me over the weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money, because she's black. It was Oprah. No, it can't be. Yes, it is. There's a lot of guilt out there, show we're not racists, we'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.... If Obama weren't black he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu or he'd be teaching Saul Alinsky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago."

— Rush Limbaugh

''The greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is a liberal media bias.''

— Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)

''We're not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.''

— Rep. Paul Ryan, GOP Speaker of the House

''I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out.''

— Glenn Beck

“Trees cause more pollution than automobiles.”

— Pres. Ronald Reagan

''There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. ... My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.''

— 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney

''Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings, my friend.''

— 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney to a heckler at the Iowa State Fair who suggested that taxes should be raised on corporations to help balance the budget