Whistleblowing

All of those people that are willing to do the right thing and turn people in … they're gonna become rich. When you get 1 percent of a billion dollars, 1 percent of a hundred billion dollars, it's gonna be a tremendous amount of money,

— Donald Trump, in remarks at the White House on Tuesday about the WHIP program

I don't recall why we did it.

— Howard Lutnick, in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee in February, regarding his and his family's trip to Epstein's island.

Our message to aliens who vote in American elections is clear: we will find you, arrest you, and you will face the consequences—including criminal charges and deportation.

— DHS spokesperson, in a statement about election security ahead of the midterms

"We were concerned about ICE recruiting a loose cannon or somebody who was just mentally unfit for the role," Schwank told the Times. "We knew that kind of person would get through. But the thing that I think kept some of the other instructors up at night was the possibility of organized crime getting access to the agency or penetrating the agency."— Ryan Schwank, former ICE lawyer; testified before Congress; quoted in The New York Times.

unrestricted presumption of innocence

— The Regensburg Public Prosecutor's Office emphasized that the investigations are not yet concluded and that the accused is entitled to an unrestricted presumption of innocence.