Jack Schlossberg Quotes

Our elites, including me, have opted out of their responsibilities when it comes to defense.

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else

A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.

Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House?

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

… a right-minded and true-hearted statesman who has had as much sovereign power placed in his hands as you have placed in mine should regard himself as the servant of the Senate; and often of the people as a whole; and sometimes of private citizens, too.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

The public, by and large, trusts its leaders not only to tell the truth, but to get the job done. When they don’t get the job done, they get punished, and when they don’t get the job done and it comes out that they lied, they’re in really serious trouble. This is what happened to [Lyndon] Johnson and it’s what happened to [George W,] Bush. If you’re going to tell a lie, make sure the policy works out.

A politician’s instinct is for self-survival.

… how easily moral courage and common decency can be subverted by political expediency.

I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one.

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

For a politician, the long term is between now and the next election.

Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.

Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.

We have people who will take votes that they can't defend. They'll say they stand for a policy, but when it comes to vote for it, they won't take the vote.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

How do you defend inaction in the face of crisis? How is that defensible for anybody?

In the Army, I grew up with this view that you're asked to do anything that is illegal or immoral or unethical, then that would be the point at which you have to consider resignation, and you'd be willing to do that.

Washington is deeply frustrating because so many of the positions that politicians hold are a product of ephemeral self-interest. They reverse themselves, for themselves, all the time.

I am not necessarily my clients. I will seek to defend them, to vindicate their rights but that doesn't mean that I necessarily think that what they did was proper.

I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job.