No, really...

“I see no sense in life if it cannot stop the deaths.”

“I get angry at a principle, not a person.”

“Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!”

“Teamwork is needed in Washington now more than ever. During my years in Congress, Democrats and Republicans were political combatants, but we were also friends. I learned that it is difficult to get anything done unless you can compromise – not your principles but your willingness to see the other side. Those who suggest that compromise is a sign of weakness misunderstand the fundamental strength of our democracy.”

“I have lots of respect for women. My mom was a woman.”

“You do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about.”

"Look, I know I sometimes say or post strange things. But that's just how my brain works. To anyone I've offended, I just want to say: I re-invented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you also think I was gonna be a chill, normal dude?"

"Politics isn’t about the weird worship of one dude."

“Will you shut up, man?”

“It affects virtually nobody. It’s an amazing thing.”

“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”

“You are not going to find what’s possible if you don’t try the impossible.”

“No one is lying to the American people. One day Covid will go away — I think we can all hope for that day. … One day it will go away. That is a fact. It is not inciting fear.”

“Listening to experts to set policy is an elitist approach. I’m very fearful of an elitist approach. I’m also fearful that it leads to totalitarianism. There’s a lot of people that are willing to go back to school, willing to go back to work, and yet we’re letting a few fearful people control the lives of those of us that are not fearful.”

“If stupid people aren’t elected next year, we’re going to have one of the greatest years that we’ve ever had.”

“It’s going to disappear, and I’ll be right. Because I’ve been right probably more than anybody else.”

“So we’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it.”