Quotes About Politics

In politics, the smart move is not to say no and to know how to finesse yes.

We serve at the president's displeasure," another.

Nixon, Trump announced, was the greatest president.

Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.

estimated Hannity's net worth at $300 million to $400 million. From his earliest days as a big earner at the network, Hannity had invested in rental properties across the country. "He may own every shitty piece of real estate in America," said Ailes, fondly. Bannon, never one to miss the obvious joke, wondered, "How many illegals live in Hannity's rentals?

Day one we're moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu's all in.

Steve wants to force a million people out of the country and repeal the nation's health law and lay on a bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade,

Trump was a cold war president and China was his enemy

Who, among the right-minded and reasonably competent, would willingly work with Rudy?

As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: it was Reince Priebus's fault, not hers.

every single lawyer who had worked on Trump's first impeachment was conveniently unavailable.

As always, Trump's regard or scorn was infectious. If you were in favor, then whatever and whomever he associated with you was also in favor. If you weren't, then everything associated with you was poisonous.

Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump's hard-core base.

people might conclude that this was just more proof that you obviously couldn't hold Trump responsible for executing on anything, much less an attack on the U.S. Capitol.)

unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction meant nobody had

Shortly after eight o'clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his solemn guarantee, was in tears—and not of joy.

The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.

The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks's The Producers. In

The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of Fox's angry common man was another sign that we were living in an upside-down world.

just when you felt on top of the world in the Trump administration, you could probably count on getting cut down. That was the pattern and price of one-man leadership—insecure-man leadership.

The New York real estate deals were dirty, the Atlantic City ventures were dirty, the Trump airline was dirty, Mar-a-Lago, the golf courses, and the hotels all dirty. No reasonable candidate could have survived a recounting of even one of these deals. But somehow a genial amount of corruption had been figured into the Trump candidacy- that, after all, was the platform he was running on. I'll do for you what a tough businessman does for himself.

the president was likely a fool and certainly a liar.

People who had the money to bribe, who fundamentally believed that anyone could be bribed, and who had outsize influence on the legal structures that might otherwise restrict bribery, had become major foreign policy players in key parts of the world.

Kushner became the representative in the White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called a Rockefeller Republican and now might more properly be a Goldman Sachs Democrat. He—