Franklin Foer Quotes

Trump affects the world in a major way.

You'll never make America great again, [Donald] Trump, but you can extend her time.

I have a direct line with Obama. It's a crucial link. And I can put Spain in the spotlight.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

No, I haven’t given any thought to running for President. But my mother has thought about it.

The veto power is only meaningful if one uses it from time to time

The politician, who measures the interests of his country by her preponderance in the scale of empire, regards all consideration of individual happiness as a weakness.

Controlling President Trump seems incredibly difficult.

I really believed that Mike Huckabee had a vision for our country, and the more I was around him the more I was impressed by this man.

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

All the arrows continue to point to a personal, political, and financial relationship that Donald Trump had with the Russians.

President-elect Trump says he's not even sure the Russians did the hacking.

As far as getting publicity whenever he wants it, Trump is the white Al Sharpton.

The biggest correlation you find is with Trump's own personal and business interests. He lives in Palm Beach part of the year, where charity galas are a big part of the life. And he runs a club in Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, that depends a lot on being rented out by charities, who can pay as much as $275,000 per night to rent out his club.

If 2016 taught us anything, it's that President Trump's political prowess should not be discounted or underestimated.

Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, have both been criticized during their campaigns for activities related to their foundations.

Trump's election was dispiriting and confounding to most traditional political players - perhaps nobody more so than Murdoch. Still, Murdoch did what he has always done: made sure he had maximum influence with the new president.

The truth is that a campaign defines how the electorate will see their president - and this all the more true when shaping the president's image in the eyes of the largest constituency that will actually not vote for them: the international community.

Trump and Yanukovych have shared the same political brain: an operative named Paul Manafort.

Every world leader is trying to figure out who Mr. Trump is, especially if he's elected president, and they want to know what his foreign policies would be. Russia is no exception.

Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.

Donald Trump gave up an incredible business career, spent millions of dollars of his own money to run for president in - whenever he became president, the Trump family got out of international business, much different than the Biden family who, whenever Joe Biden became vice president, you saw that Hunter Biden got into international business.

This whole idea that the Trump was in cahoots with the Russians is bogus.

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.