Robert J. Shiller Quotes

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.

I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

Trump has a bigger, longer-term vision for this country than just sitting as a president for four years. He really does. And that's what I was impressed by.

Based on history, many presidents come into office with lots of plans, and an agenda and things they want to start and an order in which they want to do those things.

The good thing about Cruz is we know who he is today, and we'll know exactly who he'll be in the White House.

I still think there's some tension . But it's pretty clear that, when the president made his statements as a candidate, he's following through with those as a president.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

In an age when stagecraft, gauzy themes, and sound-bites have too often been substituted for leadership, Bill Clinton as a candidate made it essential to campaigning to take the specifics of governance seriously. Practical solutions were 'in;' ideology was 'out.'

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.

If you [as a Presidential candidate] identify a problem, you are going to be expected to have a solution.

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected

Highly popular and unpopular Presidents do not engage in policy pandering.

People win elections based on having the right ideas, the right plans, like my seven step plan for 700,000 jobs. That's what wins elections.

We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a Campaigner-in-Chief.

I don't think Donald Trump is Ronald Reagan.

President Obama makes fantastic stump speeches, but putting together an actual agenda is more complicated.

I look forward to continuing to hear what Donald Trump has to say about his vision for this country.

It has been a very successful life experience for President Trump to be President Trump. So let's let him do that... Let's see where the chips fall.

So far, I have looked and looked for a detailed plan from Hillary Clinton's campaign that can tell me where she really stands, but there is none. It is difficult to trust that a candidate will be the right one for our community when you don't exactly know what their plan is.

It is in the interest of Americans to find out what those wanting to be president think about a wide range of challenges and what they might do about them. We should want to get their take on the wisdom of past decisions, what they agree and disagree with, and why.

One of the things that was missing from the 2014 election was a Contract With America type of platform.