Ron Stallworth Quotes

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a conservative, the election of Trump is a national tragedy for multiple reasons. It will go down as one of the worst tragedies in American history. But he's not a dictator. This happened because we either allowed it or voted for it.

I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.

We live in a representative democracy, characterized by free and fair elections and peaceful transfers of power. After most elections, roughly half of Americans are thrilled with the results; the other half are profoundly disappointed.

Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump.

Democrats are so enraged by President Trump that they have shown their willingness to undo the votes of 63 million Americans.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

Trump is president of the United States. We can't blame our voters. We clearly did something terribly wrong.

The arguments in the Brexit vote and in the American presidential campaign are about the same. In a friendly way, may I also give some advice to the American people to make the right choice when the moment comes.

The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.

Make America Great Again was a political slogan. It was used before, I believe Ronald Reagan used it before. It was about making America great and rallying America. Unfortunately, I would say 10 percent of the population that voted for President Trump has a different view. They have embraced it as 'Make America White Again.'

I think it was a miracle that Trump got elected.

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

Listen, the guy was not created by coverage from MSNBC and CNN. If you want to blame us for making Donald Trump president because you're unhappy about it, I think you are deluding yourself. Donald Trump hit a nerve.

America is a different country, and it will forever be a different country after the election of Donald Trump.

The American people elected somebody who's tough, who is smart, and who is a fighter. It's Donald Trump. And I don't think it's a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire.

We live in a country that elected Trump. Clearly you have a sense of humor.

The Internet didn't cause Donald Trump, and it certainly can't solve Donald Trump.

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.

I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.

Let's be clear: the American people didn't give the GOP a stamp of approval or a mandate to ram through an ideologically-driven, far-right agenda.