Leon Trotsky Quotes

[Richard M.] Nixon is a naive, inept, maladjusted Throttlebottom.

Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.

Tim Kaine is a good man.

Bob Corker's a very reasonable person.

Donald Trump is an interesting fellow.

Bill Clinton was a great politician. Bill Clinton loved a fight. He was willing to fight. But he also wanted to be loved. He wanted to be admired.

Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream; he was a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. The Nixon I remembered was absolutely humorless; I couldn't imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn't quite reach the lever on the voting machine.

I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.

He may not have been a good actor, and I personally don't think he was a good president, but I'll tell you this: Ronald Reagan was a helluva character.

Joe Lieberman can be cloying and sanctimonious.

Politicians are already exaggerated. They're bigger than life in every way - their appetites, their ambitions, their personalities, their failings, their magnetism. In a sense, they're made for fiction.

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

I find Trump to be like a parasite.

Don't believe in Netanyahu.

On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

[Donald] Trump is obsessed with name calling.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.

So as far as leadership and patriotism goes, I think it's really important that those things have to take place. And I think he's the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton. And that's coming from a Democrat.

Donald Trump has to be respected.

I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?