Daniel Pfeiffer Quotes

Politics is a blood sport.

Mitch McConnell, I'm going to light him up.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

I ain't got no beef with Obama.

[Politics is a] war of all against all … a quest for power after power that ceaseth only in death.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Roosevelt, never let Hoover near the White House and they never liked each other. Hoover didn't speak to Roosevelt when they were riding down the avenue, you know.

In public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

Neoconservatives believe that we can only be defined by having an enemy.

Washington believes in Zero-Sum politics.

Don’t worry Congressman. President Clinton can’t stand you either.

You don’t want to humiliate your enemy—your adversary.

I won't let the grudge Netanyahu and those who surround him have against me hurt the country.

In politics, your opponent can be far more important than your vision.

I'm calling out the enemy. He is Speaker Paul Ryan.

[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.

Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.

Like the others though,[Donald] Trump thrives when he has a clear enemy.

A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies.

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

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.