Chuck Grassley

"Do you know what I think? I just think you were trying to bully my brother and other allies of President Trump. You caused my brother and a lot of other senators a lot of stress, and that makes me sick," she claimed. "You should be ashamed of yourself."— Sen. Darline Graham during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 29, 2026

What we did was, we did not want to punish victims of bestiality—victims who were trafficked.

— Kash Patel, FBI Director, during testimony on FBI hiring standards and bestiality policy; explaining why he did not want to automatically disqualify victims who were trafficked.

U willl see Beth no more. See black that’s from electrical sparks. It’s not safe to use anymore. GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse. Ur namesake still is hard worker. I will miss u.

— Chuck Grassley, U.S. Senator from Iowa, on X announcing the retirement of his long-used vacuum 'Beth'.

Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation’s history.

— Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump, around 7 a.m. on July 31, 2026.

Your lack of judiciousness regarding your personal travel and dubious use of official travel appear to violate not only government ethics law and Department of Justice policy, but also White House directives.

— Durbin and Raskin wrote in a letter criticizing Patel's travel and spending.

He died doing the work he was born to do. He was truly a great politician.

— Donald Trump said in a 14-minute eulogy at Lindsey Graham's funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.

Let me spell out for you what Sen. Grassley and countless nominees this Congress have made clear: Whoever is certified as receiving the majority vote from the electoral college is the winner of the election.

— Grassley spokeswoman Clare Slattery, in a statement

Kristi Noem doesn’t know how to hold a gun or run the Department of Homeland Security.

— Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego wrote on Instagram at the time criticizing Noem’s gun safety and leadership of the DHS.

It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records—along with those of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles—using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight.

— Kash Patel said in a statement to Reuters, describing the alleged secret subpoenas of his and Susie Wiles's phone records and criticizing the process.