Quotes About Politics

I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.

I think that we need, you know, Sen. Vitter is quite conservative, and I think we need to replace a good strong conservative with another conservative.

What I am saying is that I have the numbers to replace the 18 DMK MPs. I mean what I say.

If you want to replace an existing governor, you'd better tell people what you're going to do and how you're going to govern.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is a long-standing joke, its chairmen replaced with every change of government.

Bashar al-Assad needs to be replaced, but he can't be replaced with another Bashar al-Assad.

One of the things that we've got to understand... is that politics of identity has never gone away. And where people have had a strong identity, geographically, culturally, in terms of their employment... if that's gone and not being replaced by something else, then I think the right-of-centre's got to wake up to that.

The Lester B. Pearson era is what I hope to replicate.

I propose a full day of live one-on-one debates on unannounced issues, with no aides to help or reply. Each candidate would be paired with another candidate for seven 60-minute sessions.

I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.

I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: 'The Daily Show,' Rachel Maddow, 'Hardball,' 'The Colbert Report,' 'The O'Reilly Factor,' David Letterman.

Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'

Neither an almost $35 million Mueller investigation, ending in an exonerating report, nor a sham impeachment effort could deter Trump from moving forward with the business of the American people.

Regardless of what side of the issue you are on, the release of the Mueller Report is essential to restoring faith in our government.

While anchoring at Boston's WCVB-TV, I reported on Mitt Romney's run for Massachusetts governor.

Over the years, Judicial Watch reported on the many times Hillary and Bill Clinton used her position as secretary of state to reward their friends and line the coffers of their own foundation.

Looking at how things might be under Trump is scary, particularly when a pinnacle moment in his campaign saw him mocking and belittling a reporter with a disability.

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Part of a campaign reporter's job is allowing yourself to be used.

I was a reporter for Gannett and the 'N.Y. Daily News' covering Gov. Mario Cuomo's dance with presidential races in both 1988 and 1991.

I've said many times: I'm not a Washington reporter.