Trish Regan Quotes

The public is to the left not simply of New Labour, but the political and media classes as a whole.

I think FoxNews ratings are a reliable guide to the attitudes of the American electorate.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.

Political culture has become popular culture.

In politics, you have to understand that there are some cases where you'll never be able to get votes.

If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americans care about.

Opinion polls sponsored by newspapers were traditionally meant to bring to the fore the mood of the people objectively.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

I think if more members of Congress would talk about what they see and what they want to do and what they want to accomplish, rather than talking about their opponent, we would begin to shape and reshape American public opinion on what the political world looks like.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.