Jacob Weisberg Quotes

President Trump needs a senator who will lead the charge for him.

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

The president deserves someone who can block for his policies.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

One of the things about politics, when you're actually there, you realize, you're on a high wire and there is no net under you. On any given day, your campaign can implode for something that happens inadvertently or even intentionally.

She's leaving when the president has one of the highest approval ratings on record. From here, it can only go down. And when it does, you know who they're going to blame. They're gonna blame Andy Card!

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Anyone who gets too close to President Bush will get burned.

In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

No one who's a politician wants to be associated with anything that is unpopular.

Politicians worry about downside political risks. Generally speaking, they are risk minimizers.

The downside risk for a President in international affairs is always greater than the upside gain.

There is no sense in putting the office of the President on the line on an issue and then being defeated.

I want to support John Boehner in any way that I can, but we need to be pragmatic.

I made the decision I will back Mr. Trump, it's not very complicated. I don't pussyfoot around playing the odds.

I was similar to Trump well before I joined his campaign.

There are some Senate candidates who aren't sure Trump is in their interest yet, but they'll come along.

Backing Trump has been bad for business.

My interest as a regional party is to support, or try and support, whichever party fulfils the aspirations of Odisha.

I'm a supporter of Barry Hearn, I voted for him and will support him in whatever he wants to do.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

I mean business about standing with President Trump to make America great again.

There are a lot of [Donald] Trump people, I mean, Trump, I remember hearing it, some of these rallies that he had talking about a special prosecutor, and his audience was responding wildly positively to it. So we'll see. Look, I do not think that Trump supporters are going to abandon him over this, and I don't think he's gonna lose any of them over this, but I do know a couple people are gonna be livid that it's not gonna happen.