Dana Perino Quotes

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

Many people feel he did cross a line in a way he hadn't even done before and also that Republicans had to speak out because they believe Trump poses a danger to the party.

The whole Republican establishment has united to destroy his bid to be the nominee of the Republican Party.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

You win elections with coalitions. You don't win elections by ideologically cleansing your party.

Over the years, Democrats have had a lot of very talented individuals, but they have lacked fighters.

I talked for a long time about that, what I call the hate wing of the Republican Party.And often been criticized for saying it. But there is such a thing, and it started in 1968 with the southern strategy developed by Richard Nixon to bring southern racists out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, which they succeeded in doing.

You could see Newt Gingrich, who's a member of Donald Trump's country club, already getting together and talking about the new episode of "The Apprentice," with the poor kids in the city.This was a very smart thing to do. He shows that he is the grown-up in the Republican Party.

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump out there.

That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.

David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who's really saying Donald Trump, you're out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale.

It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, a clear establishment figure, and Stephen Bannon, a leader of the right-wing, the guy - Breitbart News Network, somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the Republican establishment.

[Donald Trump] respect for the Republican leaders he denounced.

So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the Republicans do. Neither of them stands for anything they believe in, anyway.

I don't think there's much difference between the two parties. I think whatever their constituents at the moment want, that's what they believe. If their constituents changed, they would change overnight.

Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed the Democratic Party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.

The minority vote is growing, which is part of the alarm of so many Republicans and why Trump constantly whipped up their alarm with his racist statements.

Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.

Donald Trump didn't have a polling operation until very late in his campaign. How did he know what to do? That the Ted Cruz people leaked their polls to Trump because they were looking forward to eliminating all the other rivals, clearing the way for a Cruz-Trump fight that they were certain Cruz would win. In the end, Cruz was the last man standing, it's true. If he had known at the beginning what he knew at the end, he might have thought twice. The Congressional Republican Party thought they could make Trump their tool to impose their very unpopular agenda. Instead, they became his tool.

I think this is a moment where Donald Trump recognized the Republican establishment was much weaker, the party leaders were much weaker than they thought they were in terms of being able to dictate any outcomes.

Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

I wish every Republican wanted to impeach [Jeorge W.] Bush , but people don't agree with this. He's stating a fact about what he believes.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

I truly believe Donald Trump is not a true conservative. His values as a Republican or a self-described Republican, when he mocks the disabled, when he really badly stumbles when asked about David Duke and the KKK, when he says that he admires Vladimir Putin and then quotes the dictator Francisco Mussolini - this is unfathomable to me that this is the type of individual who leads the party that I love.