........Sen. Ben Sasse on GOP: "I still believe, as you used to, that politics isn't about the weird worship of one dude...We're going to have to choose between conservatism and madness."....Sen. Marco Rubio on impeachment: "A waste of our time."....Sen. Rick Scott: "It's vindictive, it's backward-looking, it's unserious."....Judge Jeanine Pirro: "Aburd political theater."....Fox News chyron: "Dems Wasting Time With Bogus Impeachment Trial."....Donald Trump Jr.: "Beating these establishment clowns twice after years of BS and under unprecedented circumstances is a badge of honor."....former CIA director John O. Brennan on Trump attorney Michael van der Veen: "One of the most venal, soulless, and perfidious individuals ever to speak in front of the U.S. Senate, which is quite a feat."....Sen. Mitch McConnell after voting "not guilty": "There is no question -- none -- that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day."....former Rep. Donna Edwards: "I almost lost my lunch listening to Mitch McConnell today."....Maureen Dowd on impeachment defense: "Just another Trump flimflam reality TV show, meant to prove how HE was wronged, not how he wronged the country."....Rep. Jamie Raskin: "President Trump may not know a lot about the framers, but they sure knew a lot about him."....Rep. Lynn Cheney on Trump: "There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution."....Sen. John Danforth on GOP: "We have become really kind of a grotesque caricature of what the Republican Party has traditionally been."....Nikki Haley on Trump: "He went down a path he shouldn't have, and we shouldn't have followed him, and we shouldn't have listened to him. And we can't let that ever happen again."....Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "[The media] is just as guilty as QAnon of presenting lies that divide us."....Sen. Mitch McConnell on Greene: "Looney lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country."....Rick Wilson on Greene: "Crazier than a s***house rat in a sugarcane field."....former WH chief of staff Mark Meadows: "President Biden is putting America last."....Pete Hegseth: "The party that Joe Biden represents is not just the party of America Last, they're a party of America Was Never Great."....Peter Wehner on Trump legacy: "Carnage and death and a lot of ruin...There was a savagery to our politics because of him."....Tucker Carlson on AOC's account of hiding in a Capitol office for six hours during attack: "Wallowing around in Lake Me like it's interesting to anyone but her. Narcissism on parade, the perfect symbol of a culture dying from self-involvement...There were no rioters in Sandy Cortez's hallway."....opposition leader Alexei Novolny on the Russian government: "They're imprisoning one person to frighten millions."....Thomas L. Friedman: "Russia once gave the world Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Dostoyevsky, Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn. Putin's Russia will be remembered for giving the world poisoned underwear...Putin has become America's ex-boyfriend from hell..."....