Frank Rich Quotes

Donald Trump's negative enough, I don't need to add to that.

Any man familiar with public life realizes the foul gossip which ripples just under the surface about almost every public man, and especially about every President

The topic of Sarah Palin has been open season to the media, entertainment industry, and club comics alike.

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

I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.

Why are people so sensitive about the reputation of General [George] McClellan? There is always something rotten about a sensitive reputation. Besides, is not General McClellan an American citizen? And is it not the first attribute and distinction of an American to be abused and slandered as long as he is heard of?

It’s always open season on the personal lives of presidents or presidential candidates.

If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.

Jesse Jackson is a master of the old expression that it doesn't matter what someone says about you as long as they spell your name right.

This is a very sick man, this Obama.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.

The Clintons believe they're under more scrutiny than anybody's ever been, but because of the way they do things they invite that scrutiny.