Tiki the dog helps Illinois man Chris Smith survive gunshot to the head:

Let me be absolutely clear: this was an act of targeted political violence, and it was an attack on everything we stand for as a democracy.

— Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar released this statement Saturday morning regarding the shootings.

He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family.

— Tristan Kern de Gonzales, the husband of Jonathan Joss, speaks about his husband's final moments and the circumstances of his death.

The reason why they imprisoned him is because he started doing positive for the community.

— Ye, also known as Kanye West, during a meeting in the Oval Office where he urged Trump to commute Larry Hoover's sentence.

One of the things that we hear very acutely from utilities is they want to have certainty that power plants operating today will continue to operate.

— Urvi Parekh, head of global energy at Meta, commented on the importance of operational stability for power plants.

This horror cannot be put into words.

— President Alexander Van der Bellen spoke about the feelings of the country following the school shooting.

Donald Trump is the worst of us, and, sadly, the rest of the Republican Party emulates his cruelty, dishonesty, and authoritarianism.

— Joe Walsh, former Republican Congressman, discussing the current political climate in America.