Trump Influence Quotes

My loyalty is to the family. Donald Trump says 'Jump;' I say, 'How high?' Then I give him my opinion of where I should jump to, and he says, 'Go do it.'

I don't think the GOP is going to die; I think Trump is going to revive it.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

This feels like a Steve Bannon whispering in [Donald Trump's] ear.

Donald Trump has put together a coalition, whether he knows it or not, whether he intended to or not, he's put together a coalition that's exactly what the Republican Party says that it needs to win and, yet, look like what they're doing. They're trying to get Trump out of the race, because they're not in charge of it. They're not in control of it. And it's the most amazing thing to watch this happen.

There's a certain attitude toward being presidential that is now going away and I think the other thing we're seeing is really a moment where I think Republicans are waking up to the fact that they should have been doing this a lot earlier. They should have been trying to get under Donald Trump's skin a lot earlier.

Paul Ryan is loved in our state because he's a conservative who has advocated for conservative policies, and Donald Trump coming out saying favorable things about Mr. Ryan's opponent doesn't add to the number of voters in Wisconsin that'll vote Donald Trump.

Donald Trump has taken over the Republican Party. He's transformed the Republican Party.

[Donald] Trump wasn't even in public life back in 2002-2003. There was nothing Trump could have done one way or the other no matter what he thought about it.

I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .

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

This country's gonna be rocking, this country's gonna be cooking, this country's gonna be sizzling, and everybody is going to want to be close to [Donald] Trump.

The expression 'livin' large' is taken from the rap vernacular, inspired by Donald Trump, who made the big dollars and flaunted them.

The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.

Comey worried that the pressure from Trump to end the Flynn investigation or remove the 'cloud' of the larger investigation would 'infect' the investigation if he let others working on the case know about it. You don't need to believe the particulars of each exchange to see that this mode of management was not productive to a larger purpose.

I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.

The first mistake in the New York Times is worrying about granting Trump access. They're not "granting" Trump access. Trump is commanding access. Trump is taking access. Trump is dictating the daily narrative.

In some ways, I was looking for a father figure, and I found that in Donald Trump.

I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump.

Donald Trump's grip on the Republican parties stronger than ever post the Mueller report.

Donald Trump has to be Donald Trump. And the country will organize itself around who he is.

Republicans are so taken by and loyal to Trump that they will believe and do anything he says.

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