"I cannot begin to express how tragic this is."
"It's pretty much the saddest f------ thing you could imagine."
"He's a man that deserved everything that we could give him other than reelection."
"Joe Biden on New Year's Day of 2024 stood as a titan of modern American history."
"It's just so sad."
"Of course people don't like the Democratic Party, because we lost an election. I don't like the Democratic Party — and I'm a Democrat — because I don't like parties that lose elections."
"I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimida..."
"play possum"
"the strategic retreat"
"roll over and play dead"
"allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us."