Mitch McConnell Quotes

I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

Every President hates the Press.

Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.

The job of a political correspondent is the challenge the people in power. If you are in power, I will challenge you.

How do you criticize corrupt public officials without attacking their honor or reputation?

I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.

I'm not saying all Trump supporters are deplorable, but I am saying that the president of the United States has got to measure his words and be more careful about what he says.

Well I think we can't avoid covering the news and when the president says something like that you're the enemy of the people, I think I'm well within my right to stand up and say this is well within my lane as a journalist and as an American to say that that's not appropriate.

There's a lot of other [than Donald Trump] people that say things you may call insulting, but no one seems to care about that.

I don't mind people writing about me. Personal attacks are different, but political arguments? I'm putting myself out there on a daily basis. I'm giving my opinion. So it only makes sense that others might differ and will criticize me.

Some of the most controversial things I've said about President Trump, I've heard from Republicans. But it's just that I've heard them in the locker room. That's what people actually talk about in the locker room - how terrible our president is.

I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

I normally try to ignore presidential tweets.

No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.

Donald Trump believes in conspiracies. He has thin skin and is impulsive.

When President Trump attacks the media and his political opponents for criticizing him, he's attacking our founding principles.

Google my name and 'Barack Obama.' There were many days I was tough on him. People have short-term memories. They think we're only being tough on Trump. That's just not true.

I don't pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.

Biden's about as disciplined as a puppy, OK?

Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

Trump forces us to ask questions we didn't used to ask.

I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.

Here's one thing the media and all of us should learn: Trump is not wrong nearly as much as everybody says he's wrong.

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter. Now having witnessed the events abroad these last several days, to President Carter, I want to issue a sincere apology. It is no longer fair to say he was the worst president of this great country in my lifetime, President Obama has proven me wrong.