Daniel Okrent Quotes

I would not describe myself as a Trump hater.

I am not a fan of President Trump, I should say. I wouldn't try to comment on every particular issue in which we disagree, but there are plenty of them.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

I don't know why so many people seem upset about the fact that Nev Schulman and I are so against Trump.

Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another; no explanation of why constitutional change should be uppermost in the minds of the people I represent.

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

I have never really liked Lowell Weiker personally, but I think that those of us who are conservative have wasted entirely too much effort fighting him over the years.

I'm sick and tired of only being asked about everything that Donald Trump says or does.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.

I don't support Trump. We'll put that right out there.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

I'm not like Ann Coulter.

There is an extensive body of writing from both sides of the political aisle that has analyzed the extraordinary depths of hatred leveled at former President George W. Bush.