Political Disruption Quotes

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.

The old system collapsed before a new one could be created.

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.

Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up like Newt Gingrich wants to do.

In politics the future is never a straight line projection of the present.

There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

The tea party movement has challenged the GOP to get back on track or risk losing its grip on the right wing. It's reminded Democrats that a slick marketing campaign coupled with paid activism isn't the same as a groundswell of real change, and the reason that Democrats are so hostile towards it is because they've never before encountered it.

There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans–mostly under 30–are determined to destroy our society

The status quo is not working, and I believe that Donald Trump is going to be a phenomenal president.

Political void should never be allowed to happen at a time of national crisis.

The old Republican Party is gone. It's now Trump's party.

Tectonic shifts in American politics take time—often a long time.

Mr. Trump is changing American politics forever and his leadership and strength are desperately needed.

Donald Trump heard a voice out in America that no one else heard.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what President Trump represents in American politics. But, if nothing else, he represents a way for tens of millions of people who were desperate for change to just turn the table over and say, we want to start over again. But it is a challenge for our democracy. It definitely is. But, again, the remedy has to be devoting enough attention to restoring the way we make collective decisions in this country.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.

Washington has never seen anything like President Donald Trump.

While Corbyn would not enjoy the comparison, he and Farage are the same beast - with very different heads.

Let's cause some senators distress.

Brexit and Trump had upended the fundamental establishment viewpoint that politics was aspirational, that good politics promised progress, generational betterment and ever-expanding world reach.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.