“I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends with him. He had his girlfriend at the time with him, that Melania with him. He said, 'Hey guys, if you work hard and be successful, you'll get one of these.' I'll never forget that. And now he's married to her.” IfsSaidHardGuyForgetSuccessfulHard WorkTrumpMetsMarriedBarsHeyGirlfriendBeing SuccessfulNever ForgetHockeyGood FriendNhlBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Jason Spezza
“It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.” WayDoeHardStupidTrumpPoliticianAngryMadRidiculousComedianThrowingMonkeysZoosHumoristsStupid ThingsPoopDisingenuous Author:Jon Stewart
“Rand Paul tried hard to upstage Donald Trump at the first debate, talking tough about his guns and his right not to register them. But with his pixie-ish perm, Paul does not impress me as the gunslinger type. Rand Paul is the RuPaul of politics. He would do better to defend his right to carry an unregistered blow-dryer and curling irons.” FirstsDoeHardTalkingTypeTrumpGunToughBlowDebateIronImpressRegisterGunslingerPixiesDryersPerms Author:Michael R. Burch
“Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.” WellsSaidHardStoriesPresidentPlansWeekTrumpRepublicanSpeechClintonTerrorismSupposed To BeTiesAnnoyingImpulsive Author:Mara Liasson
“Donald [Trump]. I understand rules are very hard for you. They're very confusing.” HardTrumpConfusing Author:Ted Cruz
“[Donald Trump twitts] "Lightweight Marco Rubio was working hard last night." This is true. "The problem is he's chalker and once a chalker, always a choker," I guess that's what he meant to say. He spelled choker, c-h-o-k-e-r.” HardProblemLastsNightTrumpLast NightMarcosChokers Author:Marco Rubio
“I'm not concerned about what [Donald Trump] says about me. That doesn't matter to me. I'm going to stand up for immigrants. I'm going to stand up for American Muslims who are working hard in this country that they love and consider their own. I'm going to stand up for other women. I'm going to stand up for the right to choose.” CountryMatterHardTrumpConcernedImmigrants Author:Hillary Clinton
“My father was a Muslim immigrant; when Donald Trump started talking about banning Muslim immigrants from this country, I grew my beard out. My mother hated it. She never wanted me to look particularly "Muslim." She thought if I grew my beard out that people would know, right? "Don't make it hard for yourself. Don't let people know."” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksCountryHardWantedMotherFatherTalkingGrewTrumpHatedImmigrantsBeard Author:Andrew Aydin
“In the end, the country is going the say, You know, whatever [Donald] Trump's weaknesses may be, he's a sincere guy trying very hard to get this country back on the right track.” KnowsTryingMayEndsCountryHardGuyTrumpWeaknessTrackSincereRight Track Author:Newt Gingrich
“I think for a lot of people, it's just where their saturation point was. Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff and the Republican stuff and the Ayn Rand followers, it doesn't let up for about half an hour. It gets hard and stays hard for a while.” PeopleThinkingHardStuffHoursHalfTrumpRepublicanFollowersSaturationSaturation Point Author:David Cross
“The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.” HardLosesLinesSupportPositionTrumpPerceptionConcernedCampaignsImmigrationLoyalSupporter Author:Steve Kornacki
“My suspicion is that his hard-core supporters, you know, when I interviewed some of them, they almost take kind of vicarious pride in Donald Trump`s ability to maneuver.” KnowsKindHardAbilityPrideTrumpCoreSuspicionSupporterHard CoreVicarious Author:Michelle Goldberg
“It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.” WayLooksHardProblemTrumpSolutionsHopefulOffering Author:Jane Mayer
“It's hard to think too hard about anything Donald Trump says because, you know, he will change his mind in the next hour, if not the next day, or whatever.” IfsThinkingKnowsMindHardNextHoursTrumpNext Day Author:Jill Stein
“There was a whole set of issues that the other Republican candidates couldn`t go after Trump that hard on. They had this difficult position where they were trying to knock Trump down while appealing to the voters who liked a lot of the outrageous things about Donald Trump.[Hillary] Clinton is giong to have no such restrictions. She`s going to attack him on a wide variety of fronts and I don`t think Trump is going to deal very well with being attacked in that way.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsHardWholeDifficultDealsIssuesFrontsPositionTrumpRepublicanClintonWideVarietyCandidatesVotersRestrictionOutrageous Author:Josh Barro
“I hope the fact-checkers are turning up the volume and really working hard. Donald [Trump] supported the invasion of Iraq.” HardFactsTrumpIraqVolumeInvasionCheckers Author:Hillary Clinton
“I know Donald's [Trump] trying very hard to plant doubts about it, but I hope the people out there understand: This election's really up to you. It's not about us so much as it is about you and your families and the kind of country and future you want. So I sure hope you will get out and vote as though your future depended on it, because I think it does.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantTryingKindDoeCountryHardDoubtTrumpVoteElectionPlantOur FamilyOur FutureYour FutureUp To You Author:Hillary Clinton
“While millions of American families, including mine and yours, were working hard paying our fair share, it seems Donald Trump was contributing nothing to our nation. Imagine that. Not fair. Nothing for Pell grants to help kids go to college. Nothing for veterans. Nothing for our military.” HardHelpingSeemsKidsNationsMillionsImagineShareMilitaryMinesCollegeTrumpFairsIncludingGrantsImagine ThatVeteranContributingNot FairFair ShareAmerican FamilyPell Grants Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald Trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. He's brought an extraordinary business acumen, he's employed tens of thousands of people in America.” PeopleHardAmericaTrumpBuiltExtraordinaryHard TimesGood TimesEmployedAcumenThrough Hard Times Author:Mike Pence
“Do you want a you're hired president in Hillary Clinton or a you're fired president in Donald Trump? I don't think that's such a hard choice.” ThinkingWantHardChoicesPresidentTrumpClinton Author:Tim Kaine
“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
“Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.” HardTrumpRepublicanDegreesDemocratDefeat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.” MenHardHe ManTrumpRomneyStood Up Author:Mark Shields
“It's very hard to find an evangelical person under 45, let alone on some of the Christian college campuses, who has any tolerance for Donald Trump.” PersonsHardChristianCollegeTrumpToleranceCampusEvangelicalCollege Campus Author:David Brooks
“It is easy to underestimate how much there is a growing awareness that there is a deep sexism in politics, there is a deep sexism in the workplace generally in America and Donald Trump has come to signify that and Hillary Clinton has come to signify the women that have to work hard, prepare more, show up earlier and go home later, work twice as hard to get the same results as men do in the same game.” MenHardShowsHomeAmericaGamesEasyResultsGrowingAwarenessHard WorkTrumpClintonSexismWorkplaceUnderestimate Author:Charlie Pickering
“Steve Hadley, that's an outlier, for sure. But he's very experienced. He may be national security adviser, but think that would be a hard choice for Mr. [Donald] Trump to make because General [Mike] Flynn he's very comfortable with.” ThinkingMayHardWould BeChoicesSecurityTrumpComfortableNational SecurityMikeAdviserOutliers Author:George Stephanopoulos
“When you look at that key question what is President-elect [Donald] Trump going to do, it's hard to glean that from his campaign. The kind of - the promise is vague and sweeping, but vague in places. Also contradictory at times.” LooksKindHardPresidentKeysTrumpPromiseCampaignsVagueContradictorySweeping Author:George Stephanopoulos
“First of all, legally, it's hard to do these things[ get rid of ObamaCare]. Donald Trump needs a lot of competent people.” PeopleNeedsFirstsHardTrumpCompetentObamacare Author:William Kristol
“If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very hard to handle it right, then that's a - a huge advantage in the mid-terms for us.” IfsHardCareTermMillionsHugeTrumpAdvantageHandleHealth CareHard To Handle Author:Van Jones
“I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.” ThinkingWantKindHardTrumpMassiveMassive Change Author:David Brooks
“Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of acknowledged with The Wall Street Journal.” HardCareStreetsWallTrumpHealth CareFabricJournalRipObamacareWovenWall Street Journal Author:David Brooks