I don’t like being up here talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was with graffiti all over the walls.

This is an emergency. This is a tragic emergency, and it’s embarrassing for me to be up here.

We're not going to lose our cities over this. This will go further. We're starting very strongly with D.C., and we're going to clean it up real quick.

I understand a lot of you tend to be on the liberal side, but … you don’t want to get mugged and raped and shot and killed.

I was deploying some 4,000 Coast Guard members and around 700 active-duty Marines to the City of Angels to put an end to the anarchy.

We will bring in the military if needed.

We will deploy officers across the district with an overwhelming presence, and you will have more police. And you will be so happy.

The Law in D.C. must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults, and lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14.

Other cities are hopefully watching this … and maybe they’ll self-clean up and maybe they’ll self-do this and get rid of the cashless bail thing and all the things that caused the problem.

I said, ‘listen, I want 20% if I’m going to approve this for you, for the country,’

This is incredibly positive news for the future of the entire region, and it’s a very important region, as you know.

They’re very anxious to go into these two countries, and they’re going to spend a lot of money, a lot of money, which will economically benefit all three of our nations.

I’m announcing a historic action to rescue our nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse.

We have other cities also that are bad. Very bad. You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is.

We’re just going to see what happens. We’re going to have tremendous success with what we’re doing.

We're done with the funding of the Ukraine war business. We want to bring about a peaceful settlement to this thing.

You want to be able to leave your apartment or your house where you live and feel safe and go into a store to buy a newspaper or buy something, and you don’t have that now.

The countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan are committing to stop all fighting forever, open up commerce, travel, and diplomatic relations, and respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.