Lee Zeldin Quotes

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.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

If you feel so strongly about it, why don't you make it an issue and run against me.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

… new truths are often struck out by the collision of parties, in the eagerness of controversy, which otherwise would have lain hid, The divine disapprobation of a form of government by kings, I take to be one of this sort of truths.

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

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

In 2009, 2010, the Obama people were the ones mad at me.

Mike Pence doesn't stand for anything that I really believe in.

I'm not sure whether a person can really gauge the quality of his work by the enemies he's made, but if I somehow upset Hamas and the Taliban and Henry Waxman, I must have done something right.

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

I don't agree with Trump on everything.

As a politician, I should expect sharp challenge from those who disagree with my decisions.

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

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.

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