Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

... there is little upside in analyzing [Donald] Trump's words. Those who support him are not looking for fancy language, of political correctness, or logical coherence, or human decency–all those establishment poses.

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any votes.

Donald Trump has been president for nearly three years. He's been on Twitter for more than 10. Yet the only thing more surprising than Trump's increasingly awful, hideously unpresidential, deeply divisive tweets is that we still manage to be surprised by them.

Any normal candidate who mocked the disabled or made crude reference to a woman's menstrual cycle or dabbled in 9/11 conspiracy theories would be out of the race. Trump's fans remain. And wait for more.

The things that frustrate one piece of Trump's coalition often endear him to or embolden another wing of the coalition.

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

This is the craziest presidency in U.S. history.

The Republican party is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.

The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts. And when somebody wins an election like that, they win, that's true, but the rest of us lose. The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts. And when somebody wins an election like that, they win, that's true, but the rest of us lose.

I've said from day one, when Donald Trump gets in there, he's going to make an equal number of Republicans unhappy as Democrats unhappy.

Trump is Trump. Some people find him hilarious. I don't find it hilarious, but you can't say it's dull. There's nothing credible about Donald Trump.

I'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.

If one in four Dutch people saying they will vote for my party, it's ridiculous to say we're divisive or extreme.

If you're not for Trump, then you're not for me.

My heart aches watching Donald Trump... pouring his heart out... How can anyone doubt his sincerity?

I think we all agree that the comments Donald Trump made in relation to Muslims were divisive, unhelpful and wrong.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

We elected Donald J. Trump to keep us jittery and entertained. He's delivered.

The number one thing I've heard Trump supporters say - number one thing - 'I love him because he says what's on his mind. He just says what's on his mind.' He just says what's on his mind. You go, 'What are your thoughts on his policies?' 'I don't know about his policies. He just says what's on his mind.'

The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.

The alt right is a disinfo group designed to discredit Trump and to frustrate his agenda, which is why David Duke and all those guys go around saying they're pro Trump.

There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.

Flanked on both sides, organized forces on the Left and the Right have made every effort to topple Trump, but these efforts have only served to embolden him and broaden his support.