“I don't think Donald Trump is afraid of journalists. If he was, he wouldn't be on the TV every hour on the hour.” IfsThinkingHoursTvsTrumpJournalist Author:Joe Arpaio
“If you mention what he said about rapists from Mexico, there are some that come over - I can prove that with how many I have in the jail system - but I don't think Donald Trump meant that everybody coming over are rapists. Come on, he knows that and I know that.” IfsThinkingKnowsSaidI CanTrumpProveJailMexico Author:Joe Arpaio
“I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump.” ThinkingShouldIdeasPartyModernTrumpRepublicanConservativeVehicleRepublican Party Author:Bret Stephens
“I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful.” ThinkingTrumpPresidencyAscendancy Author:Bret Stephens
“I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America first populism and nativism and isolationism, than the confident, modern, cosmopolitan, thoughtful, engaged conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.” ThinkingFirstsKindAmericaFatherModernTrumpRaisesVersionsEngagedThoughtfulPresidencyConservatismPopulismIsolationism Author:Bret Stephens
“I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsTwoFourFiguresTrumpRepublicanSixMajorsTwo YearsConventionsCruz Author:David Brooks
“In terms of media, we did not get the kind of media attention that somebody like a Donald Trump got, because media is not necessarily interested in the issues facing the middle class, more interested in attacks in personality. So I think there were a lot of reasons.” ThinkingKindReasonTermAttentionClassIssuesMiddleMediaPersonalityTrumpMiddle Class Author:Bernie Sanders
“The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think by temperament he is unqualified to be president. I think his views - you have a guy who's running for president who rejects science, doesn't even believe climate change is real, let alone wants to do something about it, wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent.” ThinkingWantGivingMindBelieveDoeTwoRealStatesRunningGuyPresidentUnitedViewsBreakUnited StatesFocusTrumpTaxesPercentDollarsClimateClimate ChangeBillionsRejectsTemperamentUnqualifiedTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think in terms of who can be trusted, I think the evidence is clear that there has been no candidate that I have ever seen who lies more often than does Donald Trump. I mean and that's just not me saying it, that's what any independent media analysis has shown. So in terms of trust, you really can't trust a word, I think, that Mr. Trump has to say.” ThinkingMeanDoeHas BeensLyingTermClearMediaTrumpEvidenceIndependentAnalysisCandidatesTrustedIndependent Media Author:Bernie Sanders
“We know that Donald Trump has shown a very troubling willingness to back up [Vladimir] Putin, to support Putin, whether it's saying that NATO wouldn't come to the rescue of allies if they were invaded, talking about removing sanctions from Russian officials after they were imposed by the United States and Europe together, because of Russia's aggressiveness in Crimea and Ukraine, his praise for Putin which is I think quite remarkable.” IfsThinkingKnowsStatesTogetherUnitedTalkingUnited StatesSupportTrumpEuropePraiseRussiaOfficialsRemarkableWillingnessAlliesRescuePutinUkraineSanctionsNatoAggressivenessCrimea Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think Donald Trump is dividing the American people. He is not good for America. It's not good for our standing in the rest of the world. To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it's just ... it's just wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldAmericaRaceColorTrumpStandingDividesOrientationDividing Author:John Lewis
“I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.” ThinkingMadePoliticalPartyProgressTrumpMajorsPolitical Parties Author:John Lewis
“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
“I think her comments - Hillary's Clinton comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to pre - Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who - who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission.” ThinkingBelieveMotherI BelieveStarsAttentionFailingExampleTrumpGoldClintonMissionsSecureCommentLiedIncompetenceSeanBenghaziHe Lied Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I think Donald Trump's reaching out and supporting John McCain and Kelly Ayotte in particular, and Paul Ryan, who had been critical of him, you know, a couple of days earlier, shows that he has the ability and the understanding to realize that there are going to be disagreements and you've got to be able to reach out to the entire party.” ThinkingKnowsShowsAbleUnderstandingRealizingAbilityPartyParticularTrumpCoupleCriticalReachingReach OutDisagreementMccain Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I think what Donald Trump is reflecting is - and I know the media always discounts this because you don't like to get criticized. But you don't treat us the same way that you treat Democrats. Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama , they get the benefit of the doubt.” ThinkingKnowsWayDoubtMediaTrumpBenefitsTreatsBillsClintonDemocratBarackReflectingDiscountsBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Donald Trump didn't even understand, right, that [Vladimir] Putin was playing him. So, in Putin's mind, I have no doubt that Putin thinks that he's an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation, although Putin would never say that.” ThinkingMindDoubtTrumpAgentsNo DoubtPutinFederation Author:Michael Morell
“I think Hillary Clinton's nomination and I think Donald Trump's nomination, I think the media played decisive roles in both of them.” ThinkingRolesMediaTrumpClintonNominations Author:Ted Cruz
“I think many of the mainstream media players are liberal Democrats. They intend to vote for Hillary [Clinton]. They believed Donald [Trump] was the easiest candidate for Hillary to beat.” ThinkingPlayerMediaTrumpBeatsVoteClintonDemocratCandidatesMainstreamMainstream Media Author:Ted Cruz
“When you do a computerized poll, where people are comfortable, Donald Trump vote goes up very dramatically. And I think people don't realize the effort by the elite media, the totally dishonest effort to submerge him, has had an effect.” PeopleThinkingRealizingEffortEffectsMediaTrumpComfortableVoteElitesPolls Author:Newt Gingrich
“Go back and read Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here or Babbitt. For a guy or girl who's going to do an hour of political comedy, it might be a little rough, sure. But I think if you're spending 10 minutes or less, and you're talking about - not necessarily [Donald Trump] but his supporters and the media coverage, there's all kinds of angles to explore. It doesn't just have to be simply, "This guy is crazy!" It's more about the idea of that kind of guy rising to the prominence he has, to actually become the Republican candidate.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesIdeasMightHappensPoliticalGuyGirlHoursTalkingComedyCrazyMinutesMediaTrumpRepublicanSpendingAll KindsCandidatesRisingRoughSupporterAngleThis GuyCoverageProminenceMedia Coverage Author:David Cross
“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
“I think it was there before, but - because of social media, too - there are these people who fancy themselves as tolerant, and don't see the hypocrisy and double standard of how they're not tolerant at all, and they're just strident and they don't listen. There's no dialogue anymore. That's maybe, truly, the worst part of Trump's legacy is just people yelling at each other.” PeopleThinkingSocialWorstMediaTrumpStandardsSocial MediaDialogueLegacyFancyHypocrisyYellingDouble Standard Author:David Cross
“I don't think you have an anti-Israel background when it comes to Donald Trump.” ThinkingTrumpIsraelBackgrounds Author:Brian Kilmeade
“It plays right into the hands of ISIS. And that's why Americans need to know that Donald Trump's words are being used in recruitment videos that ISIS is putting out. I think that is a very serious problem.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsPlayProblemHandsUsedSeriousTrumpVideoIsisRecruitment Author:Hillary Clinton
“What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which might be a personal record for Donald Trump - the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions' point of view on free trade agreements.” ThinkingWayMightInterestingViewsNumbersRecordsWrittenEconomicPolicySourceTrumpSpeechLaborOrganizationTradeUnionsPoint Of ViewVersionsAgreementSectionsTanksReally InterestingInstituteFree TradeEconomic PolicyLabor UnionFootnotesTrade Agreements Author:Avik Roy
“It might be the first time - certainly the first time in my lifetime that a major policy address by a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump so heavily relied on data and studies from a labor-union-backed think tank.” ThinkingFirstsMightStudyPolicyTrumpRepublicanMajorsFirst TimeLaborUnionsLifetimeDataPresidentialAddressesTanksLabor Union Author:Avik Roy
“I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.” ThinkingHas BeensEnergySourceTrumpTaxesSpeechIntellectualTradeStructureFavorsCampaignsImmigrationReformDevelopingConsistentTrailsFree TradeEnergy SourcesTax ReformFrackingHydraulic Fracturing Author:Avik Roy
“I think he [Donald Trump] recognizes that a plan that would increase the deficit by $10 trillion over a decade is not a plan that's likely to get traction in Congress.” ThinkingPlansTrumpIncreaseCongressDecadesDeficitTraction Author:Avik Roy
“It's far from clear in general that Donald Trump is a guy who really thinks about the details of policy and is going to do the kind of heavy lifting you have to do as president to get those policies through in Congress. I think the hope is that Paul Ryan and his crew will push policies through Congress and Trump will just sign them. That's not really how policy works.” ThinkingKindGuyPresidentClearPolicyTrumpCongressDetailsHeavyCrewLiftingHeavy Lifting Author:Avik Roy
“I don't think that we need to see [Donald Trump] tax returns to verify his financial acumen. I walk into the Trump Tower every day and I'm like, this guy did pretty well for himself before I got here.” ThinkingNeedsWellsGuyWalksReturnTrumpTaxesFinancialTowersThis GuyVerifyTax ReturnsAcumen Author:Kellyanne Conway
“People voting for Donald Trump are doing so for a whole lot of different reasons, but I think there is a typical Trump voter. I think they're there for specific reasons.” PeopleThinkingDifferentReasonWholeTrumpVotingVotersTypical Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think what more and more Americans are concluding is that Donald Trump is not a man who is qualified to be president, and he is not fit to be commander and chief.” ThinkingMenPresidentTrumpFitChiefsQualifiedCommandersConcluding Author:Hillary Clinton
“Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump's views are in line with theirs.” ThinkingShouldCareLinesViewsShareGoes OnTrumpFairsShould HaveUniversalPaidRaisesHealth CareWealthyMinimumCoverageMinimum WageFair ShareUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“Hillary Clinton should get a bounce out of her convention, I mean a bounce in the polls. I think it's probably conceded that Donald Trump got about a three-point bounce out of his conventions. He's closed the gap that much.” ThinkingShouldMeanThreeTrumpClintonGapsConventionsPollsBounceConceded Author:Mark Shields
“I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.” ThinkingPersonalityTrumpDominantColorfulFlamboyant Author:Mark Shields
“For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.” ThinkingNeedsStrongDarknessCrimeArmsTrumpRepublicanSpeechCoreThemeConventionsStrong Arms Author:David Brooks
“I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.” ThinkingLittlesBigsTrumpMessagesClintonAgendasErratic Author:David Brooks
“Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.” ThinkingMindTwoTrumpRepublicanRight NowDemocraticClintonTheme Author:David Brooks
“I wouldn't say Donald Trump is a champion for white America, I think he shares a lot of the issues and values of white America.” ThinkingAmericaValuesWhiteIssuesShareTrumpChampion Author:David Duke
“I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.” ThinkingImportantSpeakWillingTrump Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.” ThinkingWayMeanPolicyTrumpComfortableForeign PolicyReally Mean Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“I think Donald Trump will articulate what we do with the people [immigrants] who are here.” PeopleThinkingTrumpImmigrants Author:Mike Pence
“Donald Trump's against amnesty and I'm against amnesty, not that anybody should care what a consultant thinks.” ThinkingShouldCareTrumpConsultantsAmnesty Author:Kellyanne Conway
“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
“I think that Donald Trump has been very clear on this. We're not going to have amnesty . What we're going to do is to get those who are breaking the law out of the country as quickly as possible to make sure then that you deal with people in a humane way. I think that's what he's been saying.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensCountryLawDealsClearTrumpHumaneAmnestyBreaking The LawHumane Way Author:Chris Christie
“Donald Trump has been saying that I think for as long as I've been listening to him of late, and that's what he's going to do.” ThinkingLongHas BeensListeningTrumpLate Author:Chris Christie
“I think what he [Donald Trump] has said is that people are not going to be eligible for legalization or citizenship unless they leave the country and get back in line.” PeopleThinkingSaidCountryLinesTrumpGet BackCitizenship Author:Chris Christie
“Now there's going to be some decisions [Donald Trump] is going to have to make as president regarding those folks, and I think what he's said let's first get all of the bad actors out of the country. And I think that's what's really important.” ThinkingFirstsSaidImportantCountryActorsPresidentDecisionTrumpFolks Author:Chris Christie
“Donald Trump wants to look at this situation [with immigrants] and deal with it in a humane way, and quite frankly, you know, I think this is the kind of thing people expect from a president of the United States.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantLooksKindStatesPresidentUnitedDealsSituationUnited StatesTrumpImmigrantsHumaneHumane Way Author:Chris Christie