Ron DeSantis Quotes

There are conservatives who say, 'Why would you show the country in a weak way?' And there are liberals who say I'm exploitative.

Whether you are liberal or conservative, people seem to know the talking points for whatever the issue of the day is. Very rarely does it seem like these are opinions that people are coming up with themselves; it's like they watched the right cable news channel, and now they know what they are supposed to think, and they repeat that.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

We are becoming too much of a gaff-centric political culture.

As a Democrat in a red state, I often spend days among crowds where there are almost no Democratic voters in sight. I listen to them, work with them and try to persuade them.

I don't think politics has gotten too negative. I ... believe in going after the opposition on the issues.

In American politics, finger-pointing is an Olympic sport.

I'm a hater. Part of the tribalness of politics is to really dislike the other side with intensity. And the more I see of them the more I hate them. I hate their negativity. I hate their narrowness

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

Members of Congress don’t speak to their colleagues any more. They talk to the national audience.

It's the fault of the liberals and the media and the Democrats, that from the very beginning have tried to undermine the will of the American people to fight this [war on terror]

In my opinion, the polarization of our politics has mostly been brought about by the massive infusion of money—mostly spent on negative advertising that create divisions among the population that watches television and the two parties.

Politics abhors a rhetorical vacuum. If the president is not clear on his … strategy, foreign policy critics and political opponents will be happy to define it for him, using less than flattering language.

This is a time in which the sort of criticism of the President we are hearing troubles me. It shouldn’t be that speaking with one American voice, in a time of crisis, these days seems like a quaint idea.

Politics requires tolerance for triviality, artifice, nonsense I have found in short supply.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I don't think that this should be politicized. But this is probably naive. In this environment, everything gets politicized.

Without any doubt, I'm convinced that Hillary Clinton represents less individuality, flexibility for the states, a weaker national defense. And you know, for all those reasons, we ought to get behind Donald Trump.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

I'm not interested in political theater.

I - and, I suspect, millions of Americans like me, Republicans and Democrats alike - couldn't care less about Obama's middle name or the ridiculous six-degrees-of-separation game that is the William Ayers non-issue.

I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that the politics is substantially more partisan than the public. But there's no pressure to make a grand bargain on fiscal matters, on growth, on anything.

Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.