Quotes About Politics

The day I sat down to write this chapter, The New York Times broke the story that Donald Trump for over a decade had managed to lose more money than any other American and, in some years, twice as much as any other American.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" to a Republican president who responds to Vladimir Putin like a stray dog, eager to follow him home.

The day I sat down to write this chapter, The New York Times broke the story that Donald Trump for over a decade had managed to lose more money than any other American and, in some years, twice as much as any other American. This is the man Republicans chose because of his business smarts and success:

Party has been running a similar scam on voters. Trump claims to be a great businessman who was wildly successful, while in fact he was one of the greatest failures in modern American business history.

Every critic, every detractor, will have to bow down to President Trump. —Omarosa Manigault

The base price of admission is a willingness to accept that an unstable, pathological liar leads it and pretend otherwise.

Courage is not standing up to a ludicrous man-child like Donald Trump.

The RNC endorsed Roy Moore but ignores moderate governors. What else do you need to know?

Evangelicals still believe in the commandment, "Thou shalt not have sex with a porn star."…However, whether the president violated that commandment or not is totally irrelevant for our support of him. —Robert Jeffress

Politics was always centrally about identity and belonging and meaning, but in the decades following World War II, democracy operated within constraints with regard to a shared set of institutional statements about reality.

Stuart Stevens

Cowardice is one of the least appealing of human qualities, and a deeply damaged Cowardly Lion leads the Republican Party.

Republicans have built a political ecosphere that thrives on deceit and lies.

Over the last decades, Republicans have been conducting an experiment to determine how many control rods of truth could be taken out of a civil society's core reactor of truth without creating a meltdown. It didn't start with Trump, but Trump may prove to be the meltdown.

The dystopian Shangri-La that so many on the right inhabit was years in the making. If it often seems that the Republican Party is living in a world disconnected from reality, that's because it is. Large elements of the Republican Party have made a collective decision that there is no objective truth.

These days the branding of Fox News as "Fair and Balanced" often seems primarily to serve the purpose of proving that irony is not dead.

So what's the difference between Clinton's making a racial appeal in 1992 and Bush's doing the same in 1988 with the Willie Horton attack? The answer is simple and one African American voters seem to understand with great clarity: The modern Democratic Party has fought for civil rights and believes government has a moral role in helping to create

That a national party once largely defined by its seriousness of intent in international affairs would be led by a man who not only was ignorant of the basics of national security but was willfully and unflinchingly proud of his ignorance is just one more milepost marking the journey of Republicans on their way to the junkyard of history.

Arthur Blank, who co-founded Home Depot and owns the Atlanta Falcons, managed to get more than $700 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build his new sports palace. Some owners do even better, getting more in breaks than the cost of a stadium.

When pundits marvel that the Republican Party could accept a man like Donald Trump, who has five kids from three wives and talks in public about having sex with his daughter, they're missing the point. Trump doesn't signal a lowering of standards of morality by Republican voters.

but Republicans have decided there is a direct correlation between the size of a patriotic heart and the size of the defense budget.

The American political process with its deep dependence on the need to raise money is a system designed not for the best governance but for the selection of the person who can put up with being humiliated the longest.

In particular, conservatives sensed that liberals had undermined traditional values. This climate was ripe for a politics that celebrated a nostalgic ideal of the home.

You can draw a straight line from that blend of kooky conspiracy theory, anti–foreign alliances, and instinctual victimhood to Donald Trump's worldview