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I am Batman.
— Donald Trump, quoted by CNN, to a young boy while giving him a helicopter ride at the Iowa State Fair.
Look at the American revolution, the anti-slavery movement, the women’s suffrage movement, the civil rights movement. All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice. And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.
— Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, quoted by the Washington Post.
I think that I would be a great uniter. I think that I would have great diplomatic skills. I think that I would be able to get along with people very well. I’ve had a great success in my life. I think the world would unite if I were the leader of the United States.
— Donald Trump, quoted by The Hill.
These concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country — who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms — to carry them. I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity, or stop it before there’s as many people that are impacted as what we saw in Lafayette.
— Rick Perry (R), telling CNN that if people could bring their guns to the movies, they could prevent the movie theater shootings.
I think our candidates should pledge not to run as a third-party candidate.
— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by Politico.
Here’s what I’ve learned as a politician: The magic of Lindsey Graham is to be Lindsey Graham.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the New York Times.
We’re called upon not to be the thermometers that reflect the temperature in the culture. We’re called upon to be thermostats, which can read the temperature and seek to adjust it to where it should be.
— Mike Huckabee, quoted by the Washington Post.
This is the MO of this administration anytime there is an accident like this.
— Rick Perry (R), characterizing the shooting in Charleston as an “accident” during an interview with Newsmax, while accusing President Obama of using the massacre to push a gun control agenda.
Texas was in a long period of drought until Governor Perry signed the fetal pain bill. It rained that night. Now God has his hold on California.
— California Assemblywoman Shannon Grove (R), suggesting her state’s worst drought in 1,200 years may be God’s retribution for laws providing women with access to abortions, the Huffington Post reports.
“Asked six decades ago, this nation and that generation chose to embrace a New Frontier. In fact, they took up the challenge of a then young president who said, ‘Ask not what your country can do, ask what you can do for your country.’”
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), while campaigning in Iowa, “presented the 2016 campaign as a generational pivot point, likening his vision for a ‘New American Century’… to Kennedy’s 1960 challenge to the nation to embrace a ‘New Frontier,’” National Journal reports.
