Quotables

‘It’s a bipartisan swamp.’

U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan., on Donald Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. Huelskamp, an ardent conservative, lost his reelection bid against an establishment-backed primary challenger who said he should have done more to work with his party.

‘I don’t particularly want to work inside the government.’

Former presidential candidate Ben Carson on declining a role in the incoming Trump administration. Carson, a retired surgeon, had been rumored to be Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

‘I was the crazy one.’

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., on her prediction earlier this year that Donald Trump could win Michigan. Her fellow Democrats called it hyperbole, but it was part of Trump’s Rust Belt sweep on Election Day.

‘This list is definitive and I will choose only from it in picking future Justices of the United States Supreme Court.’

Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump in a Sept. 23 statement in which he provided a list of 21 potential Supreme Court nominees, all of whom have conservative records. Trump will soon choose a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

‘I’m wishing Donald Trump luck. And I’m going to give him a chance. And we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too.’

African-American comedian Dave Chappelle while hosting Saturday Night Live after the presidential election.