Political Figure Quotes

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

Donald Trump redeemed himself politically.

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.

[Theodore] Roosevelt is the most perfectly equipped and the most effective politician thus far seen in the Presidency.

John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith.

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

I admire Obama.

Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

The President [George W. Bush] speaks Spanish almost as well as he speaks English.

Senator Schumer is a partisan.

I do have to give it up for Sarah Palin on one account. She is brave.

The media did not make Donald Trump, and they can't destroy him.

I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

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.

And I think that George Bush really is a very godly person.

I don't dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he's surfaced in the political arena. But I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't go the Trump way.

Mitt Romney looks like an American President in a Canadian movie.

Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person.

The Dali Llama uses religion to intervene in politics.

Former Gov. Weld is that kind of guy who you can't predict what his next move will be.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.