Quotes from Rick Wilson

We should tell the true stories of that day to honor the memory and sacrifice of those who perished on 9/11 and in the long wars since.

I will not vote for Hillary, and I will not vote for Trump. At the end of the day, I believe that President Clinton would be less damaging to the Republican Party than President Trump. Because five minutes after she's elected president, every bit of this anxiety in our party disappears instantly. We will go at the main enemy as we do.

Trump sees himself as the center of the media universe, the sun to which all eyes turn.

I'm not afraid of what people say about me. I don't care if people say, 'You're an awful person.'

Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.

As a Republican governor, a senator, or member of Congress, or as a Republican candidate, let me remind you: You're known by the company you keep. By associating yourself with or endorsing Trump, you own Trump's toxic radioactivity with voters outside his base.

There's a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty, his venality, and his utter lack of the knowledge, judgment, or temperament to be president of the United States.

I'm of the philosophy that you wage a campaign of full engagement and you use every tool in the toolbox.

I was born in Florida. My first political campaign was as a field director for George Herbert Walker Bush in 1988.

I really like Bobby Jindal.

As Trump's mistakes pile up, Congress will be left on cleanup detail.

Trump would rather submerge himself in the lake of fire for a thousand years than talk about Russia again. It's the subject he can never avoid, never fully wash out.

I always advise my candidates, 'You better fight to the last bullet.'

Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.

Trump's 2016 effort could afford to be a shambolic circus; nothing was on the line. He never expected to win and so the rotating cast of campaign managers didn't really matter.

When the 2010 election swept Republicans into office in a massive tidal wave, they were part of a philosophical and ideological change. They were bound by a set of limited-government principles. To be sure, sometimes loosely and imperfectly so, but the Tea Party wave was driven by ideas, not a singular, authoritarian personality.

If Trump claimed something was the most luxurious, it was likely a dank, low-end casino in Atlantic City.

McConnell is the most talented majority leader in a generation. He has complete control of his caucus and understands and exploits their weaknesses, ambitions, and desires. In an impeachment trial where his members knew Trump's guilt was absolute and unequivocal, he bribed and browbeat them into submission.

The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never, ever use them.

Donald Trump's campaign is good at two things; hoovering up hundreds of millions of dollars from MAGA fans and spending them to move his poll numbers... nowhere.

No bully ever turns down a free shot when his posse pins back your arms.

We were a family of incredible talkers, readers, arguers.

Kasich does two fundamentals in presidential politics wrong; he talks, and he keeps talking.

Trump fans convinced of his strategic genius are welcome to their view, but they're wrong.