WSJ Editorial Board Quotes

Politicians never live up to all the hopes that we invest in them but I think he [Barack Obama] has made America a different country.

I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.

Let me just say that I'm the only candidate in this race now that has any firsthand experience fighting terrorism. And both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I think, have proven in different ways that they're unprepared for that challenge.

David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today

I think Donald Trump knows the kind of leadership that we [Americans] need at home and abroad.

I had no expectations about Barack Obama and I'm not in the least disillusioned.

I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference.

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.

To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience.

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.

Now look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States.

You cannot bring inexperienced men ... into the government and expect the government to run well.

Politics is the management of expectations.

If you are going to run for national office, you'd better understand that optimism is something Americans expect.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

He [Donald Trump] loves it. He thrives in it, and he is learning it every day.

Donald Trump is a good man, and he will make a great president of the United States of America.

They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it.

I called the book 'The Senator Next Door,' not 'The President Next Door.'

I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump.

Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.

Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.'

There is always some criticism. Tell me one thing that Narendra Modi does and you don't criticise. If he gives a chance to newcomers, you say he forgot the old guard; if he gives a chance to an incumbent, you say Modi doesn't give a chance to young leaders.