Quotes About Politics

Trump very much wants to be liked by Putin and I think sincerely admires him. Putin doesn't know how to deal with somebody who positions himself like that.

Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

It is hard to tell where Fox ends and Trump begins. But if I had to choose one side of this, I would say Fox drives Trump more than Trump drives Fox.

Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.

I reject Donald Trump's mission of America.

Republicans are so taken by and loyal to Trump that they will believe and do anything he says.

Having a friend in the Kremlin would help Trump fulfill his longtime dream of planting his name in the Moscow skyline - a dream that he pursued even as he organized his presidential campaign.

If President Trump were to say, 'I'm going to go to San Juan to see that nasty mayor,' I would receive him with open arms because democracy is larger than me.

During the Trump years, many people felt that his antics were impossible to ignore.

Trump lies a whole lot more than Joe Biden or any other Democratic politician.

I thought everybody unanimously hated this man. I don't know anyone who was like, 'Go Trump.' I was surprised.

I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.

The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.

When Trump goes after the media and calls it fake news, he should be impeached - and everyone should say this. But the media lives in fear.

By heralding President Xi Jinping's accession to permanent leadership, soliciting Vladimir Putin's reentry into the Group of Seven, and declaring that Kim Jong Un is 'beloved by his people,' Trump legitimizes the very behavior that U.S. presidents opposed for decades.

Well, Trump is certainly not my hero. I'm sorry to say that, but that's true.

Trump is good for comedy but bad for the world.

We have already seen ISIS use Donald Trump in their propaganda directly. I mean, I will go so far as to say Donald Trump is the ISIS candidate.

Trump forces us to ask questions we didn't used to ask.

Politics now is fractured. The rising tide of nationalism and populism threatens to consume our politics. Whether it is Trump or Putin abroad, or Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage at home, our political order is increasingly dominated by forces that seek to divide us.

The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda.

We have all these strong men in politics - whether it's Brazil, or the Philippines, or Trump, or Putin. They're all big men: it's let's look up to them, don't be afraid, they're looking after things. It's so fundamentally anti-democratic.

I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them.

What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved in the context of retro-totalitarianism.