Jedediah Bila Quotes

He's a jackass at a time when we need to have a serious debate.... Every time I turn around somebody asks we what I think about Donald Trump and the latest person he has trashed.

Donald Trump's more sophisticated defenders have long since mastered the art of pretending that the only thing that matters with his presidency is what it does, not what he says.

Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The president can talk at a very high level of abstraction that is sometimes misinterpreted when it is applied in concrete situations.

It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

He [Donald Trump] loves it. He thrives in it, and he is learning it every day.

I'm an opposition leader. But Mr Modi is also my prime minister. Mr Modi has certain skills. He's a very good communicator.

Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

I think Donald Trump is a complete and utter buffoon and a cancer to our society.

It's really unfortunate that instead of focusing on the really important issues in our world, Donald Trump chooses to make personal attacks on people.

I'm going to keep speaking out about what Donald Trump says, because I'm getting messages from leaders around the world who are just bewildered. They want to know what's going on.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president.

When President Ronald Reagan asked me a stupid question once, I called him an idiot in public! I thought I was going to be arrested, but he laughed and appreciated me.

I'm the American Winston Churchill.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.