Ben Schott Quotes

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

I don't have a particular go-to political blog.

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.

I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.

You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.

It might not be wise for a sometime political journalist to admit this, but the 2016 campaign doesn't seem like fun to me.

I watch 'Morning Joe' occasionally. I used to watch a lot more than I do now, but I watched it, and all of a sudden, there was this love fest, for crying out loud - this inexplicable love fest one morning - for The Donald.

I wake up at 10. I have coffee, and then I spend a half an hour on the computer, where I read newspapers and progressive blogs. I have to tear myself away, or I'll spend all day reading.

I'm a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.

There are so many political talk shows out there that are doing such a good job that it would be foolish of me to try to get in the ring with them.

Republicans are easy to make fun of.

When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.

I'm no political pundit.

I've always watched the political shows.

I had been a foreign correspondent in Japan for the 'Wall Street Journal' when my editor there became Washington bureau chief - this was 2007 - and he said, 'How would you like to go to Iowa and cover Hillary Clinton?' I was 28. I went to Iowa.

I knew who Buckley and Vidal were growing up, being a political junkie.

It seems like everybody's weighing in on Trumps campaign - even Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. He said that Trump is 'probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.' Then Trump was like, 'Well, at least one Cuban loves me.'

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.

Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.

Tip O'Neill, even after Ronald Reagan became president, called him "an amiable dunce," which is what the Democrats always do.

There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.