People today have been rereading this?

Steve Bannon on Brian Glenn: “I call him ‘the Helen Thomas of the current White House.’”

“It’s hard because Republicans aren’t central planners.”

“Nobody is right 100 percent of the time. I can see where he’s coming from. But he’s being screwed and doesn’t know it.”

Joe. Joe. Joe.

Axelrod: “If there is one thing Joe Biden proved, it’s that you can’t jawbone people into feeling what they’re not experiencing in their lives.”

“This is the thing I think conservatives should worry about. Could a future President AOC say, ‘Oh my gosh, we are at war with the fossil fuel companies. They are inflicting masses of harm on the United States. It might be cumulative, but they’re doing it on purpose.’”

"He never seems to refer to the EU without referring to the fact that they blocked his golf course in Ireland."

“... unfortunately I just don’t think Trump is temperamentally capable of reversing himself and saying, ‘Yes, affordability is a concern.’ He’s stubborn.”

“I understand the focus on ’28 and all that. But there will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any vice president of the United States ever was.”

“I’m sure he’s a lovely man. His brother’s a lovely man. … Do you know his brother is serious MAGA?”

“Europe doesn’t know what to do.”

ICYMI.

This week's Friday Read? My Graham Platner profile.

POLITICO Weekend.

“... this thing could turn into a multiple year battle making Indiana kind of the epicenter of conservative politics.”

“I think what Democrats need to do is focus not so much on winning litmus tests but on winning elections. And I know how to win elections here in one of the toughest states in the country.”

I wrote about Graham Platner.

The President Who Never Grew Up.

New this morning for @politico.com.

“Muchas, muchas muchas — y ahora, nada.”

“If we get close,” says @aftynbehn.bsky.social, it will be because of the “affordability crisis that we are experiencing in Tennessee and the fact that the federal administration has not delivered an economic agenda to address the needs of working people in the state.”

"Democracies rely on a common base of facts and understanding of the news, and they need news sources respected by rival sides. But that's not always the message we're hearing from the loudest critics."

"The most challenging part of the job is producing an independent news report when some readers really want a more partisan one."

“Of the Democrats, she is the one who we have spent the most time with, who has reached out to us the most, who has wanted to work with us. From the Democrats, she is definitely the one who’s most willing to get things done.”

Franklin the Turtle publisher slams Hegseth for ‘violent’ boat strike post.

“You can be a fighter without being the Democratic version of Trump.”

“I thought Tennessee was deep red. How did that happen?”

"I think that’s our superpower compared to national folks. We’re here, our kids go to the same schools, we go to the same sports games, we shop at the same grocery stores. When there’s an ice storm and your power goes out, our power goes out. We have skin in the game."

"I think every journalist — I think every American — should care about it."

“Students will say, ‘I get my news from YouTube.’ I say, ‘No, you don’t.’”

“I’m hopeful that the authenticity that we talk about as being a loyal ‘Mountain Democrat’ and having that grit that we need to fight for our people can shine through,” @cherlynnforky.bsky.social tells @politico.com.

Ran 15 years ago today.

“If we as women are putting our eggs on ice for a decade to make sure that our career is thriving, we have a prioritization problem.”

“I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast.”

“You can’t have a political party that hates everyone except white people who like Hitler and think you’re going to win elections.”

"There was a noise in my head for the entire 15 hours that sounded like a little machine clunking around."

Laura Loomer: “What’s the purpose of people voting in 2026 if the Democrat policies are ‘rational?’”

“We believe, like, on Latino buyer’s remorse alone, we can flip these seats.”

POLITICO Weekend.

Even more now.

... I exchanged pleasantries with Al Gore and Margaret Tutwiler and Elliott Abrams and a lot of other people whose names one used to read in the newspaper back when people read newspapers.

Susan Glasser: I got a hug from Rachel Maddow at Dick Cheney’s funeral.

This just in.

“Folks just want their school boards to be boring again. They want normalcy. Once the board was taken over by a super partisan extremist majority, folks across the political spectrum were dismayed.”

“I’m sorry, Mr. President. We think there is another path forward to get you what you need, and that is by finding a good candidate instead in congressional district No. 1 and getting behind a person there and funding that person and organizing that campaign.”

Mamdani’s New York Rejected Trump — and He Never Forgot.

“We’ve seen an extraordinary public outcry in favor of fighting back against Donald Trump’s overreaches in basically every forum,” says @johnbisognano.com.

“Because when I was — everybody remembers the Democratic National Convention in 2004 — when you were … well, you were in elementary school ...”

Abby Phillip: “You can’t understand Bernie Sanders and what he’s doing and what he’s building on without understanding Jesse Jackson.”