Robert Scheer Quotes

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

Aside from the likability factor, I can criticize Hillary's politics all day long, but I never question her intelligence. I have never doubted that she is a strong, capable, smart leader.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.

I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton.

I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

It takes time and effort and preparation to think. Statesmen are far too busy making speeches to think.

If you want to be President, you'll have to remain poor.

You might be considering elected office because you are angry with those in power. Indignation can be a motivator to run but not to govern. If you win you'll need more than anger to govern.

I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.

Donald Trump tells us that he is very, very smart. I'm afraid that when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart.

I actually think you should run for president if you're going to be president, if you want to be president. I'm not running for president. I made that decision, consciously, not to.

Hillary Clinton is a non-starter and lacks the integrity to lead this nation, but Trump has a long way to go to earn the support of many - me included.

I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.

My pitch is very simple. My name is Theresa May, and I think I'm the best person to be Prime Minister of this country.