Morgan Ortagus Quotes

A political genius is a man ... who has accidentally been on the winning side in the last campaign and is about to be on the losing side.

I have covered Pelosi for years, and always wondered how she learned to operate and excel in politics the way she does.

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

It's said that once you win an election, that you win political capital, and that's kind of my intent, is to spend political capital on the Gulf Coast, among other areas.

We need to work as hard as President Trump is working.

I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.

[Donald] Trump has more of a mandate than any president since Ronald Reagan.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

I think that people like Bloomberg, they're complete thugs. No question about it. But on the other hand, it must be said that they are politically savvy. They don't get into those positions of power - in the case of Bloomberg, both economic and political power - by being anybody's fool.

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

My view of Sarah Palin is she is the most dynamic figure maybe in politics, even more in some ways than President Obama, who is a little more scripted than she is. He is great with the teleprompter.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

This policy and drill [of political parties], first organized by Thomas Jefferson, first accomplish his election, and established the Virginia Dynasty of twenty-four years, a perpetual practical contradiction of its own principles.

I figured it out real early: How can you control the city unless you're the leader of your party?

Political action committees first and foremost want winners. They're not sentimentalists. They're not theorists. They're not philosophers.... They want to buy a piece of a winner.

I believe that [Bill] Clinton is the best tactical politician, certainly in my lifetime.

If the American President had control of the media, his job would be much easier.

Mr. [Judah P.] Benjamin, unquestionably, will have great influence with the President [Jefferson Davis], for he has studied his character most carefully. He will be familiar not only with his "likes" but especially his "dislikes.

The more publicized the presidency the less powerful the office.

Roosevelt knew never to lose control of the majority of American opinion, unlike his greatest democratic contemporaries, Churchill and De Gaulle, who at times suffered spectacular rejections by their electorates.

Rayburn was one of the most powerful men in national life. If he were not from Texas, he could have been President … He was a powerhouse!