Frank Luntz Quotes

I think George W. Bush has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.

Say what you want to say about the rest of his presidency, including his tone-deaf response to Katrina and a war waged in Iraq on false pretenses, Bush connected with Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 because he looked as frail and unforgiving as we felt.

I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

The man [Richard Nixon] has no style. No style at all.

We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.

For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.

I'm not a Hillary Clinton defender. I'm a Hillary Clinton promoter.

I'm vulgar, I'm a populist. But isn't that what the mayor should be?

Maybe [Donald Trump] is just never dealt with somebody who's not particularly impressed by his carrying on, but I'm not. So I'm going to stay focused on what's at stake in this election.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.

[People] felt good even though they didn't really know much about [Barack Obama] and may have had some doubts.

I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor Bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore.

I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

I generally think that Hillary Clinton is a good egg and a good politician.

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

Barack Obama believes he has the same kind of connection to the American people that Trump has.

So to some extent he [Barack Obama] is a victim of the expectations and the high hopes that we experienced.

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

George W. Bush is a person who is totally disinterested in the world, uneducated. I'm not saying he's stupid. I don't think he's stupid. He's crafty as hell, but he projects well on television. And that's the real big problem. He is the perfect "what, me worry?" president.

Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.