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The police must initially take seriously a report of an armed person, a serious act of violence, or another acute danger and act accordingly.

— Police Headquarters Southeast Hesse (Polizeipräsidium Südosthessen), in a press release about the swatting case in the Main-Kinzig district

No one is above the law, not even a former President of the United States.

— Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said at the time.

It is time for him to 'do equity' and pay the judgment.

— Judge Lewis Kaplan, in an order late Wednesday

I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM.

— Trump wrote on Truth Social disputing Pirro’s assessment of the Reflecting Pool and the DOJ finding.

The twenty-four hours until they returned are among the darkest hours of my life.

— Pete Buttigieg, describing the experience in a Substack post about his family's CPS investigation.

Not if I got any say in it. It’s radical Islam that is my grave concern.

— Pauline Hanson, during her National Press Club speech in Canberra, addressing concerns about Muslim migration

I felt that way already about him, just that I didn’t dare act like that publicly.

— Nicki Minaj, in a Time interview about her private support for Trump.

Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.

— Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote

I’m just so surprised that this giant global corporation would not stand up to these bullies.

— Stephen Colbert, during an episode of The Late Show, criticizing CBS' decision not to air an interview with Rep. James Talarico.

How many more lives need to be lost before this administration realizes that a political and a partisan narrative is not as important as American values?

— Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey spoke out after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.

The Department of Justice doesn't care about victims one bit.

— Spencer Kuvin, an attorney for multiple survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, criticized the DOJ's handling of victim identities in its recent file release.