Quotables

“I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot.”

President DONALD TRUMP to supporters during the Republicans’ first-ever midterm convention, held in Dallas on Sept. 9–10. The president urged voters to turn out for GOP candidates the way they would during a presidential election. He also promised a $5,000 dividend for every American if Republicans win majorities in both the House and Senate on Nov. 3.

“I didn’t want us to lose our soul. I wanted, as we defended our freedoms, I wanted people to remember how precious they are.”

Former President GEORGE W. BUSH recalling the days and decisions that followed the 9/11 attacks.

“[He] had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”

KELLIE FARINA, a juror in the Massachusetts murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, describing a holdout juror who refused to buy the mother’s insanity defense and helped force a mistrial on Sept. 4.*

“With the fury of a monkey, I dug through the soil.”

Finnish treasure hunter KALLE LAPPINEN after he discovered with a metal detector the largest horde of Viking-age silver coins in Sysmä, Finland, in September.**

“It’s Renoir’s. It is priceless.”

BRYAN MASSON, mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, after thieves broke into a museum Sept. 8 and looted four paintings by the French master.***

*NBC10 Boston; **The New York Times; ***BBC