The Independent

The lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today.

— Melania Trump, reading a statement and declining to take questions from reporters at the White House Grand Foyer.

history shows accidents occur when organizations convince themselves they understand problems they do not.

— Former astronaut Charles Camarda criticized the 'fly as is' decision in a letter to the NASA administrator, arguing that authorities cannot fully understand the root causes.

He has run Hungary as if it were his fiefdom.

— Max Bergmann, director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, describing Orbán's governance.

There he goes again.

— Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential campaign, referring to Jimmy Carter's predictability

Control over the strait can serve as a powerful deterrent, as it demonstrates Iran’s ability to disrupt a vital artery of the global economy and thereby exert pressure on multiple states simultaneously.

— Zeynab Malakouti, Senior Fellow at the Global Peace Institute and research affiliate at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute

The Russian army has violated Putin’s ceasefire more than 2,000 times.

— Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, said on X.

The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world, and the Catholic Church had better take its side.

— Elbridge Colby, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, during a Pentagon meeting with Cardinal Christophe Pierre.

I've told him that I'm in—100 percent, if he can make it happen.

— Hunter Biden — in a Channel 5 interview conducted by Andrew Callaghan, expressing his willingness to participate in a cage match with Donald Trump's sons.

we see your activity over our cables and our pipelines and you should know that any attempt to damage them will not be tolerated and will have serious consequences.

— Defense Secretary John Healey, speaking about Russia's actions near underwater cables and pipelines

Families are losing their loved ones. Children have been incinerated. The world’s economy is on a knife’s edge.

— Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter about the consequences of Trump’s Iran war threat

I just started screaming, because, in my mind, he's trying to knock me unconscious, to get to be able to drag me over the edge.

— Arielle Konig, describing the moment of attack during her testimony at the cliffside hike trial