Daniel Pfeiffer Quotes

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?

Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

The media here is the opposition party. They don't understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life.

Little things had to go wrong for Donald Trump to become president: Comey, emails, all that stuff. Big things did make Trump possible. Big, cultural, political, economic forces opened the door to someone like Trump.

For federal races, being able to carefully navigate the Trump Era is a significant challenge.

The Left has been frustrated because President Obama has allowed the Republicans to run all over him.

Obama tried to make deals with Republicans, and I don't think he realized he'd have such an insanely opposing Congress.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

There's no question that a Democratic Congress plus a Trump presidency would equal gridlock. Nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing gets accomplished, nothing gets reformed. Voters know this.

The liberal people are the violent people in this country. The Democrat Party are the violent people.

The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.

With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the Tea Party.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

I never thought America would be stupid enough to put this idiot in the White House. Up until a half hour before they declared Trump the winner, I still thought that it wouldn't happen. I never thought that we, as a nation, had fallen so much that we would be foolish enough to do that.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.

For nearly three years, President Obama devoted a great deal of effort to finding compromises with Congressional Republicans. That was futile, in my view, since those Republicans had made it clear from the day he was inaugurated in 2009 that their plan was to oppose everything he wanted and then paint him as a failed president.