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It’s horrifying and terrifying. I'm watching my country be destroyed really fast and I feel hopeless.— Teri Lenfest, a 79-year-old docent at California Academy of Sciences and San Francisco Zoo who showed up to the San Francisco protest.

We want to make sure that everyone’s voice is heard and work together to fight through the very real threat of fascism that we are facing here in America.— Kathleen Proudfoot, an organizer of the protest event, spoke about the importance of people's voices and the threat of fascism.

If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.— Elon Musk at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia last year, discussing the birthrate as a critical issue.

"This new administration has done so much damage and so much destruction."— Joe Biden speaks about the impact of the Trump administration on the Social Security Administration.

"Trump and Musk want to take that away."— Senator Elizabeth Warren, a proponent of building out Direct File, stated this in response to the elimination of the program.

"That intrusion causes an objectively reasonable unease."— Alethea Anne Swift, an attorney with the legal services group Democracy Forward, which is behind the lawsuit.

"All over this country, people are struggling, every single day, just to survive. Brothers and sisters, in the richest country in the history of the world, we can do a hell of a lot better than that!"— Bernie Sanders addressing the crowd in Folsom, California.

I’m excited to announce that we can anticipate savings in [fiscal year 2026] from reduction of waste and fraud by $150 billion.— Elon Musk, during a Cabinet meeting where he presented his savings forecasts for the federal government.

I am deeply concerned given the scope and speed of the agency's action ... about whether the agency is now in compliance with the preliminary injunction.— U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said during a hearing called after Thursday's dismissals.