"Come and get me, tough guy."
"The deployment of the Marines from Twentynine Palms is an intensely risky move."
"This is not the way a civilized country behaves. It is completely deranged behavior."
"He’s a tough guy. Why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me."
"We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realdonaldtrump."
"Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy."
"At no point in the past three days has there been a rebellion or an insurrection."
"purposefully inflammatory"
"They want a spectacle. They want the violence."
"We didn’t need the National Guard. Why on Earth? What are they going to do?"
"This move was purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions."
"We didn't have a problem until Trump got involved."
"We begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it."
"Tom, arrest me. Let’s go."
"This is a day I hoped I would never see in America."
"We talked for almost 20 minutes, and he barely — this issue never came up."
"Governor Gavin Newsom has called illegal."
"This is a hallmark of authoritarianism."