“I had not been involved in any way in planning the event in Mobile. My staff maybe, had really been contacted, but I had never talked to Donald Trump about him coming to Mobile, and I decided - I had something else to do but it became so clear that it was going to be such a big event that I should be there. And he had already adopted my immigration views, in large part, and he was saying things I thought were valuable, about immigration.” WayShouldBigsViewsClearEventsTrumpInvolvedDecidedValuablePlanningImmigrationStaffAdoptedMobileBig Events Author:Jeff Sessions
“I think Donald Trump's history has shown that this was a very problematic thing. There were so many ways Iraq could have gone awry once we started, and I don't think most of us spend enough time considering the dangers.” ThinkingWayEnoughGoneDangerTrumpIraqConsideringEnough Time Author:Jeff Sessions
“We're going to build a wall. Donald Trump never said it's going to go from one end of the country, from the Gulf to the Pacific, and he'll use good judgment about that. And there are ways, through tax and regulation policies, that we can - and immigrant fees - that this could be paid for. I have not studied the details of it but, absolutely, I think that is possible.” ThinkingWaySaidEndsCountryUsePolicyWallTrumpTaxesJudgmentPaidDetailsImmigrantsRegulationPacificFeesGood Judgment Author:Jeff Sessions
“It's very much in our interest to unite [with Bernie Sanders] as quickly as possible to begin the campaign against Donald Trump. And I think the facts really speak for themselves. I have a won a big majority of the popular vote of the states, of pledged delegates, and we want to go forward in a positive and unified way.” ThinkingWayWantStatesFactsBigsSpeakInterestTrumpVoteMajorityCampaignsUnifiedDelegatesPopular Vote Author:Hillary Clinton
“The way Donald Trump talks about terrorism and his very insulting language towards Muslims is making him the recruiting sergeant for ISIS.” WayLanguageTrumpTerrorismIsisInsultingSergeants Author:Hillary Clinton
“For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.” IfsWayImportantCareFallLevelsIssuesSeaFeetTrumpClimateClimate ChangeDearCeaseIceShelvesImportant IssuesGreenlandSea Level Rise Author:Moby
“Hillary Clinton's record in office is dreadful. Her ideas are dreadful. They will make us less safe. So, but there is no way I'm going to vote for a guy who is just totally uninformed, un-presidential as Donald Trump is.” WayIdeasGuyRecordsTrumpSafeOfficeVoteClintonPresidentialUninformed Author:Bret Stephens
“What crystallized the importance of speaking out like that - of making nonviolence not just a tool or a tactic, but a way of life - was in San Diego [at Comic-Con]. One of the young girls who marched with us was wearing a hijab, and she came up to me afterward because I talked about my beard, and I talked about why I was doing it, and she came up and she gave me a hug, and she was crying. And she said, "Thank you. You have no idea how the other students treat me because they're shown that this is OK by Donald Trump. Thank you for speaking out."” WaySaidIdeasYoungGirlCryStudentsTrumpToolsTreatsImportanceComicNo IdeaNonviolenceHugTacticsBeardSpeaking OutSan DiegoComic ConHijab Author:Andrew Aydin
“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
“He was making a very serious point. Donald Trump has a way of talking to get people's attention, and it's drawn attention to a very important issue.There was a time when a Democrat president knew where the buck stopped in the White House. And the responsibility for the failed policies in the Middle East that created the environment where ISIS developed belongs to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the American people know that.” PeopleKnowsWayImportantStatesHousePresidentWhiteAttentionResponsibilityTalkingIssuesEnvironmentMiddlePolicySeriousTrumpClintonDemocratEastBarackWhite HouseMiddle EastSecretaryIsisBucksPresident Barack ObamaImportant IssuesWay Of Talking Author:Mike Pence
“There was an analyst who came out the other day who's had a long track record of projecting presidential campaigns based on the economy and other kind of factors. And he said if [Donald] Trump stays about where he is right now, he'll win at about 51 or 52 percent. If Trump actually gets his act together in a disciplined way, he could win by as much as 66 percent.” IfsWayKindLongSaidTogetherWinningEconomyRecordsTrumpRight NowPercentTrackCampaignsFactorsPresidentialAnalystsTrack RecordPresidential Campaign Author:Newt Gingrich
“The point is [Donald] Trump goes way too far. He then demonizes Muslims - American Muslims. He wants to ban all Muslims from everywhere in the world, including the new mayor of London who has spoken about this from coming to our country.” WorldWayWantCountryTrumpIncludingLondonOur CountryBansMayors 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
“Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to know about our taxes. And so Donald Trump is standing in the way of precedent that goes back on both sides of aisle Democrats and Republicans, and he clearly has something that he doesn't want us to see.” PeopleKnowsWayWantYearsSidesReturnTrumpRepublicanTaxesDeserveStandingDemocratDecadesPresidentialCandidatesBoth SidesWant UPrecedentAislePresidential CandidateTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks, use the rhetoric, the demagoguery, the bigotry and the bluster and the bullying that he has demonstrated.” WayStatesUsePresidentUnitedUnited StatesTrumpBigotryBullyingRhetoricDisturbingDemagogueryBluster Author:Hillary Clinton
“The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.” WorldWayYearsCountryNumbersTrumpRepublicanWeaponsDemocratNuclearPresidentialNuclear WeaponsFrighteningOther CountriesCasualDecreaseBipartisanPresidential Leadership Author:Hillary Clinton
“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
“Putin is behaving in a very dangerous way. And Donald Trump sounds as though he would simply sit back and allow that to go on. I worry about where that would end up.” WayEndsSoundWorryDangerousGoes OnTrumpPutin Author:Paul Wolfowitz
“The idea is, Mr. [Donald] Trump won the primaries in no small way because he had this very forceful position, saying all 11 or 12 million undocumented immigrants will be forced to leave the country.” WayIdeasCountryMillionsPositionTrumpPrimariesImmigrantsUndocumented Immigrants Author:Jake Tapper
“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 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
“I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.” ThinkingWayFactsPresidentDealsTrumpSmartDirectCandidates Author:Chris Christie
“I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingYearsKindEnoughPresidentAdviceTrumpSmartMouthsGive MeSevenRanGovernorsSeven YearsGood AdviceAdvisors Author:Chris Christie
“I've said consistently, the advice I give to Donald is to Donald [Trump]. And that's based upon our friendship over the last 14 years and the way I would expect to.” WayGivingYearsSaidLastsAdviceTrumpConsistentlyFriendship Over Author:Chris Christie
“After all, despite the scandalous behavior of one and, by the way, the other candidate [they are both , Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, scandalous in their own ways], they are smart, they are really smart and they are aware of the leverages they should use to make the voters in the United States understand them, feel them and hear them.” WayFeelsShouldStatesUseUnitedUnited StatesTrumpBehaviorSmartClintonDespiteCandidatesVotersReally SmartScandalous Author:Vladimir Putin
“Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton is focusing on a different part of the voters trying to influence them in her own way as well; so they attack each other [with Donald Trump].” WayTryingWellsDifferentInfluenceTrumpClintonVoters Author:Vladimir Putin
“We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to people around the world, and that's not who we are. And [Donald] Trump is coming along saying those days are over; we are the solution, we are going, our system of government, we are gonna promote it, we are gonna promote our way of life around the world as the best in the world.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsCountryDoneGovernmentCuttingTrumpSolutionsSizeAround The WorldWho We AreSystems Of Government Author:Rush Limbaugh
“So in a strange way, even though Trump is a billionaire, what he's been saying is, "Everything's rigged, it's all corrupt and I'm not corrupt because I'm my own billionaire." Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie Sanders made a lot of hay by making that argument.” WayMadeMy OwnStrangeTrumpArgumentBillionaireHayRigged Author:Jane Mayer
“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
“You see the kind of approach, because he [Doanld Trump] is a businessman. He's like, I'm going to pick up the phone, I'm gonna call that CEO and we're going to talk about this directly, instead of getting mired in a lot of the way down, you know, bureaucracy and red tape and having 25 assistants or deputies talk to somebody instead of going directly to the root of the problem.” KnowsWayKindProblemTrumpApproachPicksRedRootsPhonesTapeCeoBusinessmanBureaucracyAssistantsDeputiesRed Tape Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle
“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 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
“I think we are only going to get it by standing up and voting our values, understanding that the lesser evil doesn't solve the problem. It just prolongs the problem and it paves the way to the greater evil. That the policies of the Clintons, the Wall Street deregulation and NAFTA, created the economic misery that becomes very fertile territory for demagogues like Donald Trump.” ThinkingWayProblemValuesEvilUnderstandingGreaterEconomicStreetsPolicyWallTrumpStandingMiseryClintonSolveVotingTerritoryFertileLesser EvilDeregulationNafta Author:Jill Stein
“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.” WayMeanLongCareClassMiddleTrumpProveMembersShotsConcernClintonWorkersMiddle ClassVotersLong Shots Author:Tamara Keith
“The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.” WayStoriesDifferencesLossClassMiddleTrumpClintonMiddle ClassStarks Author:Tamara Keith
“Donald Trump has called for extreme vetting for people coming into this country so that we don't bring people into the United States who are hostile to our bill of rights freedoms, who are hostile to the American way of life, but I will say, Donald Trump and I are committed to suspending the Syrian refugee program and programs on immigration from areas of the world that have been compromised by terrorism.” PeopleWorldWayHas BeensCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsTrumpAreasProgramBillsCommittedExtremesTerrorismImmigrationRefugeeHostileBill Of RightsAmerican Way Of LifeSyrian Refugees Author:Mike Pence
“When you hear Donald Trump say he wants to make America great again, when we do that I truly do believe the American people are going to be standing taller, they're going to see that real change can happen after decades of just talking about it. And when that happens the American people are going to stand tall, stand together and we'll have the kind of unity that's been missing for way too long.” PeopleWayWantBelieveKindLongRealHappensTogetherAmericaTalkingMissingTrumpStandingUnityDecadesTallReal Change Author:Mike Pence
“When Donald Trump disingenuously demands to know why [Hillary] Clinton never tried to close the loopholes he used, the answer is: She did. And if there had been any way to make it retroactive, she probably would have voted for that too.” IfsKnowsWayUsedAnswersTrumpDemandClintonLoopholes Author:Kevin Drum
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz
“[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.” PeopleWayNumbersSupportGroupsEconomicTrumpEasierCrisisBlameRaisedImmigrantsVocabularyMurdererLatinoIntersectionsEconomic CrisisHappenstanceScumbags Author:Junot Diaz
“Of course people are angry. Generation upon generation had jobs at steel mills or whatever - things were going on and it looked like it would always be that way. And then there's these cataclysmic changes and people find themselves out on their arse and they're angry and they want answers. But one thing that's for sure is that those answers will not come in the form of Donald J. Trump.” PeopleWayWantJobsFormCoursesAnswersGenerationsOne ThingTrumpAngrySteelMillsArses Author:Dylan Moran
“When you look at the New York Times and you pick it up in the morning, at the top of the paper there's three stories that are anti-Trump. Some of them baseless, some of them silly. And at the bottom you get something about WikiLeaks. Same thing with The Washington Post. Way out of control.” WayLooksStoriesThreeMorningNew YorkTrumpPaperPicksBottomSillyPostsNew York TimesWikileaks Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's seen by many observers as a kind of racial distancing. Often using that article seems unnecessary. [But] it is serving some function, which is to represent a group collectively rather than as individuals.” WayKindUseSeemsIndividualFocusGroupsTrumpFunctionServingArticlesUnnecessaryDefiniteObservers Author:Ben Zimmer
“The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.” PeopleWayGivingSaidOrderGivenPresidentLinesResponsibilityFourMinutesTrumpWeaponsResponsibleFingersBottomNuclearCodeNuclear WeaponsButtonsBottom LineUnprecedentedLaunching Author:Hillary Clinton
“The United States has kept the peace through our alliances. Donald Trump wants to tear up our alliances. I think it makes the world safer and, frankly, it makes the United States safer. I would work with our allies in Asia, in Europe, in the Middle East, and elsewhere. That's the only way we're going to be able to keep the peace.” ThinkingWorldWayWantStatesAbleUnitedUnited StatesMiddleTearsTrumpEuropeEastAlliesMiddle EastElsewhereAsiaAlliances Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the majority. Pointing out the history shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle, one party tends to win the lion`s share of them. With two weeks to Election Day, there`s not enough time for republicans to recover toss-up seats in states where Hillary Clinton is currently leading, considering this, early voting is under way, and [Donald]Trump won`t be any help especially since his campaign doesn`t really have a ground game to speak of.” WayGivingTwoStatesEnoughHelpingShowsPoliticalGamesWinningSpeakPartyRaceFiveWeekShareMiddleTrumpRepublicanPicksElectionMajorityClintonDemocratSevenCampaignsCooksSeatsReportsVotingLionsSenateSplitsConsideringPointingTwo WeeksColumnsEnough TimeTossPredictingElection DayNot Enough Time Author:Chris Hayes
“[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.” IfsWayStepsTrumpTongueArrogance Author:Star Jones
“What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.” WayHas BeensTermMediaTrumpRepublicanHappeningsCastsTreatedPresidentialCandidatesPresidential Candidate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.” WayTrumpTreated Author:David Brooks
“In no way, shape, manner, or form could the conservative movement or a conservative, a Burkean conservative could never, ever vote for some low-life like Donald Trump. It might affect their fundraising, which they need. It might affect their cruises, which they need. There could be any number of reasons for it, but in their minds it's rooted in principle.” WayNeedsMindReasonMightFormNumbersPrinciplesMovementTrumpShapesLowsVoteConservativeRootedCruiseFundraising Author:Rush Limbaugh