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“I think anyone that follows politics can tell there are no principles left in my party. Even for people who agree with some of the stuff the president is doing, if you are honest with yourself, you know it is not based on principle. He wakes up every morning and tries to figure out, what is the best thing for him to do in his self interest that day. But the real lack of principle is on display every day in the House and Senate. These people have become lemmings.”
— Former Gov. Chris Christie (R), in an appearance at Harvard.
“The simple fact that we can’t say ‘definitely no, absolutely not, for sure’ is an astounding commentary on how unhinged and dangerous his presidency has become and how far off the rails the war with Iran has gone as Trump flails about with no plan, no strategy, no exit, and a global economy that day-by-day is reeling from the biggest geopolitical oil shock in history. … It sets the next 36 or so hours up as one of the weirdest and scariest moments in geopolitics of our lifetimes.”
“Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them! We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent. Indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people.”
— Pope Leo XIV used his first Easter speech Sunday to deliver a resounding call for peace in times of renewed war, declaring, “Let those who have weapons lay them down!,” the Washington Post reports.
“She will not escape accountability and remains legally obligated to appear before our Committee under oath. She must answer for her mishandling of the Epstein files and the special treatment she has given Ghislaine Maxwell… If they think we are moving on because they were fired, they are gravely mistaken.”
— Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), quoted by Politico, on Attorney General Pam Bondi’s firing.
“Any president that contemplates attempting to withdraw from NATO is not only fulfilling Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s greatest dreams but would be undermining America’s own national security interests.”
— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), quoted by The Guardian.
“Make America greater — I’m down. But Make America Great Again and then it becomes a movement of a bunch of fucking dorks? ‘Cause a lot of them are dorks. These really weird, fucking uninteresting, unintelligent people.”
— Joe Rogan, on his podcast.
“I used a mail-in ballot. You know why? Because I’m President of the United States and because of the fact that I’m President of the United States, I did a mail-in ballot.”
“Our first and last word has always been, is, and will be this: someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you — not now, not ever.”
— Iran’s military command, quoted by the Financial Times, in a video message to President Trump rejecting a ceasefire.
“We’ve not seen anything like this — there’s been no disruption of this scale in the past. It’s every oil analyst’s study piece or worst nightmare — one that we never thought would happen.”
— BP chief economist Gareth Ramsay, quoted by Politico, on the impact of the Iran War on the oil market.
“The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to be true than our own. We have become Baghdad Bob.”
— Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker, on X.
