Rashid Khalidi Quotes

Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.

Nobody knows what Trump is thinking. But they all think they do.

Donald Trump is unpredictable.

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

I don't know which way to take Donald Trump. And only time will tell. Only time will tell.

It's this kind of wild unpredictability, megalomania, thin-skinned craziness that really has me worried, more than [Donald Trump] statements. Now, on the climate change there's just nothing to say, he's perfectly straightforward.

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.

A week is a long time in politics.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

When you're in the real world as President of the United States it doesn't go according to the script.

Politics, you will observe, is the science of guessing right.

You don't have smooth sailing in the American system no matter who's in charge.

Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

Trump would either be the Scarecrow or the Joker.

I would not attribute any strategic thinking to Trump.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.

Questions about Trump's psychological stability have mounted throughout his presidency.

No one knows what Donald Trump is doing or planning.

I didn't think this whole business with Director James Comey was handled well. So there are sort of day-to-day aspects of the operation that I think are really troublesome. And I know that there are a lot of people in the country who have lots of issues with decisions that Donald Trump has making on the domestic side.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.