"We have a name for people who use violence against innocent people because they're too weak to get what they want militarily, we call them terrorists... What the President has been saying fits the definition of terrorism"
-- @paulkrugman on Trump's Easter threats against Iran
"They trained activisits to obstruct justice, encouraged them to put themselves into harms way knowing they could get harmed. They got two martyrs and are using those martyrs as an excuse to defund law enforcement"
-- Sen. Ron Johnson (R) on Dems, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti
"They're scared to death and that's why they're all resigning or retiring... There is gonna be a Blue Tsunami if we have midterms, if we have free and fair midterms... We have to assume there will be, we have to prepare like there won't be"
-- @WalshFreedom
"In war, the Commander in Chief must be credible... They're continuing to dominate strategically the chokepoint of the world... You know who also said we won like that? George Bush for one and the Generals who fought George Washington... You cant BS your way out"
-- @TerryMoran
"Is Iran committing genocide in Gaza right now like Israel who dragged us into this war?... I call out Israel's genocide and then everyone swarms... There are hundreds of thousands of people under rubble, that's what I define as terrorism"
-- @EmmaVigeland on the Iran War
"We have to vote, and when we vote we have to become psychiatrists. We have vote for people who care about other people, who are woke. Woke means caring about other people... We have to vote good people into office"
-- Jane Fonda
"Personally I think the only path forward is the 25th amendment...The Iranians are determined to embarrass Trump and to show he is not going to win this war... The Republican party is going to be destroyed"
-- Fmr. CIA Director John Brennan
"These army troops that would be coming in might have additional capabilities to bring and could stay longer and sustain themselves on the beach... This doesn't look like a bluff or a negotiating tactic. These are serious troops"
-- Fmr. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby
"He is trying to embed himself in the culture of this country because he knows when he is gone there will be no one that wants to protect his legacy. The Republican party, whatever is left of it, will try to erase him because he is a stain"
-- @SymoneDSanders
"It's a real risk right now that we would have two Republicans move on. We would be a Western White House. At a time we need someone to stand up to Donald Trump, we would have a friend not a fighter"
-- Rep. @ericswalwell (D) on the CA Governor's Race
"You're not really slang if you just abbreviate a word... My view is real slang sticks around because it takes on its own meaning. Abbreviations are lazy and I don't think they'll last the same way"
-- @AriMelber on Abbreviations vs Slang
"They're infantilizing him a little bit. Here is a trophy. Here is an iPad to watch bombs exploding in Iran to color your view of how the war is going. They treat him like a child. If I were him I'd be offended by it"
-- @WillieGeist
"If you think what Obama did was bad, this is infintely worse... We were not at war with Iran when that happened. We had just signed the JCPOA, the nuclear deal... Quick calculation here, $14 billion is 400,000 Shahed drones"
-- @neeratanden on lifting Iran oil sanctions
"If they went back to get him to revist that and the President changed his mind, that's news to me. That would be a good thing and we should go back to that original offer"
-- Rep. Jamie Raskin (D)
"We are losing this war. If Trump was to stop this war tonight he would have to negotiate with the Iranians to reopen the Strait... The Chinese Communist Party, he is asking to come bail him out to re-open the strait. It's an unmitigated disaster"
-- Rep. Seth Moulton (D)
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D): In Lebanon... a million people displaced, thousands of people dead. You've got the Netanyahu government saying they're going to occupy Lebanon... This is not going to end Hezbollah's strength. It leads more people to be more sympathetic to Hezbollah
.@alexwagner: "There is no off ramp. All we know from Trump is that the White House is floating ideas for a peace proposal. The Iranians who appear to have the upper hand are like 'yeah, no, we don't like any of that.' Trump's big shiny object he trots out is a present from an unnamed source that proves the negotiations are going in the right direction. Was that a dozen doughnuts? What was it? What was the present? Who are you talking to? What is even happening?"
Sen Chris Murphy (D): We asked the DOD who is representing us at the negotiations... They couldnt tell us anything. They had no information. That's probably because they don't really exist. What they did confirm was that there is no way to open the Strait of Hormuz. There is no military plan to open the Strait. The Strait will remain closed until the war ends... Why is Iran gonna do a deal right now? They are getting most of what they want"
"You have loud vocal voices that are so-called MAGA that are saying President Trump is wrong about being President Trump... They always lose... This is about taking out a bad regime and replacing them with a better regime. Not good but better"
-- Fmr. Rep. @PatrickMcHenry (R)