Lori Lightfoot Quotes

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.

The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.

Negative politics have always been around.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

The enemy is not me. The enemy is Barack Obama.

Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, the anonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab and anything to win. This is Nixonland. America is something different.

We are fortunate in the fact that an amazingly large segment of the population, and even of his own party, seems to dislike and mistrust Nixon instinctively.

I wasn’t elected to get into back room deals with Jesse Helms. I’ve despised Jesse Helms since I was 18 years old.

We used to try and make fools out of our political opponents. Now we try and make criminals out of them.

I'm always happy to see one of my Republican colleagues make a mistake.

The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts. And when somebody wins an election like that, they win, that's true, but the rest of us lose. The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts. And when somebody wins an election like that, they win, that's true, but the rest of us lose.

The fact is that politics in Illinois is a blood sport. It's really rough. It's really nasty.

There are smart people on our side of the aisle who have known as early as I did who Obama was and should have been saying 'I hope this guy fails' right along with me. There should have been opposition to this guy all along.

The Democrats' obsession with the Kochs as a political target is, indeed, additional evidence of a truly Nixonian approach to politics.

I'm troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure, because that is rooting for our own failure.

DMK is not only making issue out of inter-state water issue, but also intra-state water issue too. It is nothing but a divisive politics.

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the Republicans do.

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

Really, Donald Trump's entire message is that people like Sen. Blunt are the problem.

What is polarizing in America is the Democrat Party agenda. What is polarizing and divisive is the Democrat Party agenda and the things they have been trying to do.

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

Donald Trump has never tried to reach out to all the American people, he never uses the language of unity, he doesn't try to charm or persuade. He just says, thanks to the people who voted for me and the rest of you are losers.

Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party, has contempt. We [Republicans] are the number one enemy. And they will put aside whatever differences they have.