“In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.” PeopleLongImportantActionDifficultTermChallengesCasesIssuesTrumpBenefitsThreatClimateClimate ChangeInternationalDecadesLong TermBroadsUrgent Author:Martin Rees
“I think that [Chris] Christie`s endorsement is, you know, it`s a sign that - you know, he is who we thought he was in so many different respects. He`s someone who ambition is the only thing that I think is bigger than his appetite.I think in this case, it`s a situation where he saw the one guy who he thinks he can maybe get a cabinet post with if he wins in Donald Trump. I think, you know, he kind of went out the door doing a number of favors in beating up Marco Rubio the way he did.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayKindDifferentGuyWinningNumbersSituationCasesSawsDoorsTrumpAmbitionBiggerFavorsPostsAppetiteCabinetsMarcosEndorsementsChristie Author:Ben Domenech
“Marco [Rubio] made reference earlier to the litigation against Trump University. It's fraud case. I want you think about if this man is the nominee, having the Republican nominee on the stand in court being cross examined about whether he committed fraud. You don't think the mainstream media will go crazy on that?” IfsThinkingMenWantMadeCasesCrazyMediaTrumpRepublicanCrossesCourtUniversityCommittedFraudMainstreamI Want YouMarcosMainstream Media Author:Ted Cruz
“You don't win everything. And you ultimately have to take what you get. I think on the case of [Donald] Trump, there's a much bigger upside than down side.” ThinkingWinningSidesCasesTrumpBigger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People are taking a closer look at Donald Trump. I think the best look they got was at the last debate. I think Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio prosecuted their case effectively. Donald doesn't have some great answers. When they talk, for instance, about immigration and releasing those tapes from The New York Times, we began talking about flexibility and immigration.” PeopleThinkingLooksLastsAnswersTalkingCasesNew YorkTrumpDebateImmigrationInstanceTapeFlexibilityNew York TimesCruzMarcos Author:Mitt Romney
“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.” TwoHandsIndividualLeftSocialInterestSimpleLevelsResultsCasesSawsTrumpConflictLogicCompetitionCriticsInvisibleTraditionalObservationNarrativeCollectivesInsufficientNaturalistInvisible HandMarket Failure Author:Bob Frank
“I wouldn't call Trump supporters or Sanders supporters fanatical. One thing, I would say they're very discouraged with where things are. I don't think in either case they're fanatical.” ThinkingCasesOne ThingTrumpSupporterDiscouraged Author:Cass Sunstein
“For the most part, much of the legal world's attention has been focused on Donald Trump and his attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who is currently presiding over the Trump University fraud cases in California. Trump somehow managed to offend surprising numbers of establishment Republicans.” WorldHas BeensNumbersAttentionCasesJudgingTrumpRepublicanUniversityFocusedCaliforniaFraudEstablishmentSurprisingFederal Judges Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.” RaceCasesJudgingTrump Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.” PeopleShouldSaidStillsRaceClassCasesTrumpClaimsOffendedHateful Author:Dahlia Lithwick
“If you follow Donald Trump's logic, say that he couldn't decide any civil rights cases because he would be biased.I mean, we do want a diverse and inclusive judiciary - one that looks like the people that they serve. And we do recognize the value of having diverse backgrounds represented.” PeopleIfsWantLooksMeanWould BeValuesCasesRightsTrumpLogicBackgroundsCivil RightsDiverseBiasedJudiciary Author:Deborah Rhode
“If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.” IfsWinningCasesTrumpArgumentBackgroundsOffensiveBenches Author:Deborah Rhode
“[Donald Trump] suggestions are not only offensive but, in certain cases, dangerous and sometimes even illegal, like his dismissal of the laws of the United States international law when it comes to torture.” SometimesStatesLawCertainUnitedCasesUnited StatesDangerousTrumpInternationalTortureIllegalOffensiveSuggestionsInternational LawDismissal Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think people who agree with Donald Trump have repeatedly made the case that he should be able to say whatever he wants to say, it's time someone did that. But as we go and speak to the kids, the young people who are reading March, we see the fear, we hear them tell us how scared they are.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldMadeKidsAbleYoungReadingSpeakCasesTrumpAgreeScaredMarch Author:Andrew Aydin
“If Mr. [Donald] Trump is up 10 or 15 points on Election Day and ends up losing, then, you know, maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn't seem to be the case at that moment.” IfsKnowsEndsMomentsSeemsCasesTrumpLosingRaisesElectionThat MomentElection Day Author:Barack Obama
“I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing.” ThinkingWritingGamesCasesPiecesFiguresTrumpBoundsPersonaPublic Figures Author:George Saunders
“"Kindness" can mean a lot of different things. In this case, I felt I had to present his [Donald Trump's] supporters in as fair a light as possible - many of them hadn't been interviewed before and that entailed some interviewer-courtesy in the editing and so on.” MeanDifferentLightFeltKindnessCasesTrumpFairsDifferent ThingsEditingSupporterCourtesyInterviewers Author:George Saunders
“There's no question that Donald Trump has said things that are very unsettling. I mean, whether it's comparing Mexicans to rapists, demonizing Muslim Americans, excoriating the federal judge who was handling the case.” MeanSaidCasesJudgingTrumpCompareFederal Judges Author:Donna Brazile
“In some cases, I would not want us to follow their [Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] pattern. I do not believe they are setting the best example.” WantBelieveCasesExampleTrumpClintonPatternsSettingSettingsWant U Author:Vladimir Putin
“What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.” WorldProblemAmericaLeftCasesTrumpSolutionsClintonBarackSuperpower Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I agree with Bill [Burton]. I agree with the pastor. I don't think Donald Trump has to be out there making the case against Hillary Clinton. I think people have known her 24 years. How you feel about her, you feel about her.” PeopleThinkingFeelsYearsPastKnownCasesTrumpAgreeBillsClintonPastorHow You Feel Author:John Brabender
“I think that`s a plausible strategy. But I also think there is a case to be made that [Hillary] Clinton actually in some ways is best served by almost ignoring him and the sort of marginal voters that there are to get for Hillary Clinton are voters who already think poorly of Donald Trump and are not sold on her.” ThinkingWayMadeCasesTrumpStrategyClintonVotersPlausible Author:Chris Hayes
“Donald Trump is much more suspicious of international institutions; much more skeptical of the contributions that America's traditional allies have made; more willing, in some cases, to entertain the possibility of getting along with countries who some would call an adversary, such as Mr. Putin's Russia.” MadeCountryAmericaCasesPossibilityWillingTrumpInstitutionsInternationalRussiaTraditionalContributionAlliesSuspiciousAdversariesSkepticalPutinGetting Along Author:Richard N. Haass
“The string of accusations being made against [Donald] Trump are raising new legal questions about some of these cases. Could actually be considered criminal sexual assault.” MadeCasesTrumpCriminalsStringsAssaultAccusationSexual Assault Author:Megyn Kelly
“I think there's no question that everything possible is being done to stop Donald Trump and you're seeing a case study in how hard it is to be outsider and the double standard of the national media, particularly if you're a conservative outsider.” IfsThinkingHardDoneCasesStudySeeingMediaTrumpStandardsConservativeOutsidersBeing DoneDouble StandardCase Studies Author:Newt Gingrich
“It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them.” PeopleKnowsSeemsCasesTrumpCentsElectorate Author:James Fallows
“I understand that that`s the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it`s what Donald Trump says, and it`s possible that that is actually the case.” CasesTheoryTrumpSupporter Author:Chris Hayes
“The other theory of the case - and it`s not just one that people opposed to him politically believe, but also people who share the Republican Party`s beliefs or conservative, but don`t like Donald Trump, is that he`s fundamentally a narcissist who has become addicted to the attention, is sort of compulsively driven by attention, and this has given him an outlet for that attention, and crucially doesn`t actually care about the party that he is nominally representing.” PeopleBelieveCareBeliefGivenPartyAttentionCasesShareTheoryTrumpRepublicanConservativeDrivenJust OneRepublican PartyOutletsRepresentingNarcissist Author:Chris Hayes
“People love hearing Trump tell a media person, "You're stupid, what kind of question is that? You have no idea what you're talking about, let me tell you what -" They love that. Nobody ever talks back to 'em. Nobody ever gets on their case.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasTalkingCasesMediaStupidTrumpLet MeHearingNo IdeaEmsYou Re Stupid Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I've all venture a guess as we saw a lot of those executives going in for the viewers, we saw a bunch of Fox News executives going in there. We saw Jeff Zucker president of CNN standing there, just in case you don't know those faces. So there was all of muckety-mucks from all of the media, cable, broadcast, you name it.What is fairness to [Donald] Trump? With President-elect Trump?” KnowsFacesNamesPresidentCasesSawsMediaTrumpNewsStandingBunchExecutivesFairnessVentureFoxesViewersCablesCnnFox NewsStanding There Author:Kellyanne Conway
“I don't expect anybody here to cheerlead for Donald Trump. I expect us to have platforms like this, where we can fairly and effectively and respectfully come in and state the case on his behalf.” StatesCasesTrumpPlatformsBehalf Author:Kellyanne Conway