Thoughts that come to mind...

"I wish to bestow the kinder title of 'fool' on those in fear of knowing the dark motives for their alignment with such a despicable scoundrel."

Charlie Quiles

"The big joke on democracy is that it gives it's mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction." 

Josef Goebbels, Nazi propagandist wrote in 1928

"Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching. I'm surprised you're still — isn't it past your jail time?"

Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel's reaction to the former president trolling him on Truth Social. Trump criticized Kimmel's hosting skills and called the show a "really bad politically correct show" and "disjointed, boring and very unfair."

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

James Baldwin, quoted in LitHub

"When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. 'My hero!' It's really creepy." 

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull describing Trump's interactions with Putin on Australian ABC's "Q+A" show

"Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."

President Biden, quoted in Polity (South Africa)

A candidate under federal indictment "has no right to be running." Further, it would be "virtually impossible for a president under indictment] to govern." -- D. Trump, Nov. 2016

"Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people."

Heinrich Heine, quoted in The Florida Star

"...we look at the facts, we look at the law, we bring charges."

Fani Willis, Georgia District Attorney

"Think of President Xi: Central casting. Brilliant guy. You know, when I say he's brilliant, everyone says, 'Oh, that's terrible' ... Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There's nobody in Hollywood like this guy."

Donald Trump, July 2023 on Fox News

Does this guy want to be USA's first dictator, or what?

Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, I think you're focusing on the wrong shit."

Wanda Sykes, quoted in the Los Angeles Times

″'They don't want us banding together for higher wages or better housing,' said Marta. 'The owners think if Mexicans have no hot water, that we won't mind as long as we think no one has any.'"

Pam Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza Rising 

"We found that for leaders to make something great, their ambition has to be for the greatness of the work and the company, rather than for themselves."

Jim Collins 

"There is no subject of public interest—politics, news, education, religion, science, sports—that does not find its way to television. Which means that all public understanding of these subjects is shaped by the biases of television."

 Neil Postman, Author - Amusing Ourselves to Death

Ben Ferencz, last living Nuremberg prosecutor, dies at 103 

"In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side."

Milo Yiannopoulos, Author: Dangerous 

"You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator."

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 

"We say we value the legacy we leave the next generation 

and then saddle that generation with mountains of debt." 

Barack Hussein Obama,

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream 

Our selective thoughts in years past?