Jim Jeffords Quotes

You cant just be against the president.

I don't think we live in a place where we don't want people to be able to say when they disagree with the president or incoming administration.

I ain't got no beef with Obama.

Congress is always looking for occasions to differ from the President.

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.

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

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War)

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

Mr. President I am here to tell you we are not buying what you are selling in 2012.

I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.

The man's [Bush] embarrassing. He's not my president and he never will be either.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

Even with the approach that I take in Congress, which is to bring people together to get things done - many people describe that as 'reasonable' - I couldn't vote for John Boehner's re-elect.

I came into parliament to do things, so I don't particularly relish being a rebel.

It's one thing to have a president with whose politics you disagree; it's another to have a president who doesn't even seem to care about your welfare.

I don't agree with Trump on everything.

I opposed the NMP scheme very, very strongly and I stated my case in Parliament, objected to it and voted against it. That has been my stand.

Why should anybody who doesn't like Donald Trump think, oh, well, I should think he is legitimate now?

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Those who warned that Gorbachev was being put under too much pressure were wrong.

I had differences of opinion with President Obama and most well-known, of course, is Iran.

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

I don't blame the Democrats for fighting. They have got a very energized base. And there is a lot to complain about a lot of these nominees. But I think, if you are actually going to turn someone down from a president's [Donald Trump] own Cabinet, it better be a lot more egregious than the cases we have seen.