Political Maverick Quotes

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.

Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He's unlike anybody else in American life. In his public life and in his heroics in war. He's a singular figure in American life and American history. I think for everybody who has ever had a political difference with him that just instantly evaporates in the face of wanting the best for him because of cancer.

Is it any wonder somebody like Donald Trump is racing through the presidential primary process?

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

I'm as far outside of the mainstream political establishment as you can get.

Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.

Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate.

John Sidney McCain III was as complex as they come.

Donald Trump is a disrupter, that's why he's winning.

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

Although I come from a political family, I consider myself a slightly atypical politician.

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.