"nobody ever saw a thing like this coming"
"After having seen this horrible event, I would imagine you’d put alarms up in some form, where alarms would go up if they see any large amounts of water or whatever it is."
"this is a once-in-every-200-year deal."
"Those people were with me right from the beginning, and it’s just a message of warmth, and I feel so terribly for them."
"For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration."
"Today’s action changes that—it restores integrity to federal social programs, enforces the rule of law, and protects vital resources for the American people."
"Head Start’s classification under the new PRWORA interpretation puts American families first by ensuring taxpayer-funded benefits are reserved for eligible individuals."
"The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen."
"To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if that’s not a good definition of evil, I don’t know what is."
"The good news is that the American people hate dark money with a passion, and they hate it just as much, if not more, in districts that went for Trump as in districts that went for Biden."
"How do you have an issue that you win 74 [percent] to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?"
"Once this comes home to roost in people’s homes, in their family finances, in really harmful ways, that [will be] motivating in a way that we haven’t seen before around this issue."
"I look forward to having the pure freedom to call the balls and strikes as I see fit and representing the great people of North Carolina to the best of my ability."
"We need an electable candidate that can win not just a primary, but a general, and we believe there’s a path there for Cornyn to win both."
"They’re still looking. There’s a lot of missing children, possibly, mostly. We don’t know, but they’re still looking."
"I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve gone to a lot of hurricanes, a lot of tornadoes. I’ve never seen anything like this."
"This has been heroism. This has been incredible."
"You’ll probably have to do that. You’ll probably come up with something very unique, because there’s no system right now."
