Political Analysis Quotes

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.

We have lost the elections; and it is natural that each of us will believe, and say, it has been because his peculiar views was not made sufficiently prominent.

I'm a big fan of political editor Allegra Stratton.

I think behavioral economists don't have any more of an explanation about the rise of Trump than anyone else.

I would say that I am an academic in politics. I have never abandoned my academic approach to observe reality, independently from the subject and its constant changes.

TV is set up to be just a shout fest: Is this good for Republicans or bad for Republicans; is this good for Cain or bad for Cain... tell me something that I need to know.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Politics is history in the making.

Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.

Has Donald Trump ever called himself a populist? I don't think Donald Trump's ever called himself a populist. I think other people have called him a populist, and other people have called Steve Bannon a populist. But I don't think Trump's ever called himself that and he may not know what one is, within the political realm or definition. He's not a political person, and that I think is leading to many people having just a devil of a time translating the guy, analyzing the guy, predicting the guy, projecting the guy.

In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

Sarah Palin made her debut as a Fox News analyst. They finally found a job that she's not under-qualified for.

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

Anytime somebody loses a presidential election, there are lots of explanations.

I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.

The liberals are this way. When they lose elections, they don't look inward and ask what they did wrong. They look at you and ask, "Why are you so stupid? How in the world could you have not voted for us?".

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

I have never analyzed a presidential election as much as I did the Trump-Clinton race of 2016.

There are hundreds of fine journalists who regularly inform us of what is happening in the world around us; and innumerable commentators who provide intelligent and objective insight on public policy matters.

Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.