KAKISTOCRACY (noun) — Government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.
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A searchable collection of documented public statements from people covered by the Kakistocracy Files.

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5728 quotes
“That was a low point for me as well.”
— Ivanka Trump
August 2, 2018   •   Ivanka describing the Trump administration's separation of migrant children from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Axios News Shapers Interview
“That's what the bottom line is.”
— Donald Trump
March 6, 2020   •   Trump emphasizing his claim that anyone wanting a COVID-19 test could receive one.
CDC Visit — Atlanta
“We need to restore America's spectrum leadership.”
— Brendan Carr
October 3, 2026   •   Carr discussing U.S. wireless policy and competition with China.
FCC
“The servers at Scytl in Germany were confiscated the other day.”
— Sidney Powell
October 9, 2026   •   Powell advancing a claim about election infrastructure.
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“Any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.”
— James Comey
July 5, 2016
FBI
“When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”
— Russell Vought
October 3, 2026   •   Vought discussing career federal employees he viewed as obstacles to a future conservative administration.
Public remarks
“When your policies are failing your people, you got to make sure you dilute those people with people who will vote for you.”
— Donald Trump Jr.
January 15, 2024   •   During Iowa caucus coverage on his Triggered program while discussing immigration.
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“He takes questions nearly every single day.”
— Karoline Leavitt
October 3, 2026   •   Discussing Trump's interactions with reporters.
White House Press Briefing
“Our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air.”
— Herschel Walker
October 9, 2026   •   Walker discussing air pollution.
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“LIBERATE MINNESOTA!”
— Donald Trump
April 17, 2020   •   Post on Twitter during COVID-19 stay-at-home protests.
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“The media is completely abusively biased in this country.”
— Sean Hannity
October 1, 2017   •   Hannity's characterization of American mainstream media.
Fox News — Hannity
“I don't like anything that's artificial.”
— Donald Trump
July 23, 2025   •   Trump explaining his objection to the term "artificial intelligence."
Artificial Intelligence Policy Speech — Washington, D.C.
“Every day this trial goes on, the Democrats look smaller.”
— Newt Gingrich
January 29, 2020   •   Gingrich discussing Trump's first Senate impeachment trial.
Fox News Hannity
“Our three branches, the House, the Senate and executive.”
— Tommy Tuberville
November 12, 2020   •   In an Alabama Daily News interview after winning his Senate seat, Tuberville described the branches of the federal government. The constitutional branches are legislative, executive and judicial; the House and Senate are the two chambers of the legislative branch.
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“You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.”
— Lindsey Graham
December 8, 2015   •   Graham criticizing Trump's proposed ban on Muslim entry into the United States during the Republican presidential primary.
CNN
“Drastically reduce government spending.”
— Rick Scott
September 1, 2026   •   Scott describing his preferred approach to balancing the federal budget.
Office of Senator Rick Scott
“If there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information... there'll be riots in the streets.”
— Lindsey Graham
August 28, 2022   •   Graham predicting public unrest if Trump were prosecuted over classified records. Trump was subsequently federally charged in the classified-documents case; the statement was widely criticized as potentially inflammatory.
Fox News — Sunday Night in America
“The more the prosecution's case is deteriorating, the more the defendant is proving that he had the right to use deadly physical force.”
— Jeanine Pirro
November 13, 2021   •   Pirro's assessment during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. The jury later acquitted Rittenhouse.
Justice with Judge Jeanine
“Our Constitution says Election Day. It doesn’t say election season, election month.”
— Kari Lake
October 1, 2022   •   ABC News interview.
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“3.9 million people from age 130 to 139.”
— Donald Trump
February 20, 2025   •   Trump citing administrative Social Security data. Such database records were not evidence that millions of 130-year-olds were alive or receiving Social Security payments.
Republican Governors Association Dinner