Weapon

Putin called the test a 'major event and unconditional success.'

— Vladimir Putin, on the RS-28 Sarmat ICBM test launch

Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran, they can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situations. I don’t think about anybody.

— Donald Trump outside the White House, responding to a reporter’s question about whether Americans’ finances motivated him to make a deal with Iran.

I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all.

— Donald Trump; remarks to reporters on the White House South Lawn before departing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing

Take a bullet—it’s a terrible expression, especially when it is used by me, but I am. I’m willing to take a bullet for the country.

— Donald Trump; said during a rambling press conference in the Oval Office on Monday

If this reporting is accurate, it would require a complete re-evaluation of the role Pakistan is playing as mediator between Iran, the United States and other parties.

— Lindsey Graham, senior Republican senator and close ally of President Donald Trump, on X, reacting to a CBS News report about Pakistan's mediation role in the Iran-US crisis.

“It’s wholly inappropriate,” Ohm claimed, for Pirro or Blanche to “be making the primary prosecutorial decisions in the case.”— Defense attorney Eugene Ohm, speaking at a US District Court hearing in Washington, D.C.