Mike Murphy (political consultant) quotes

In the end, they killed Rasputin. (Mike Murphy (political consultant))
[T]he disease of the Republican Party is we treat base voters like swing voters, when, in fact, is you want to put the base under some pain to attract other people to get to a majority number. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
Trump is going to go under an electron microscope. And everything I know about Donald Trump, and I know a fair bit about him going back to my Jersey days when he was operating in Atlantic City – that's where I first kind of encountered him – he is one of the least likely people to survive an electron microscope into his life, I believe, and his business life of anybody. So, my instincts are strongly that they are going to find some stuff. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
You want to win in politics? Stop wasting time being dragged screaming out of hearings and learn to f'ing organize. Signed, Reality. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
[H]aving problems is not a license to vote stupid. People need the tractor to plow the damn field, now. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
If we have real, creative destruction here with Trump, and we have Armageddon or worse, out of the ruins will come new successes. New movements. And eventually, new rackets. And I'll be in on them. I admit it, I'm a racketeer. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
People get what they vote for. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
Everything is a racial stereotype with him half the time; we've got to admit that about Trump. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
[T]here was something about Obama that brought out the real alt-right crap. And because it was like one of these things where, "Hey, there are a bunch of cannibals that have joined our army, and they're doing pretty well on the left flank." "Good, give them guns." You know? That kind of mentality. And so now, half the party is eaten by cannibals. And guess what? They're eating us next. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
I don't mind technique... I can be shameless. I have a long career at this. But when everything is a short con, then there's never another short con. Because you need trust, and you've destroyed it. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
You think the pissed-off steelworker in Akron has trouble now? Wait until we have a financial collapse and they take 25 percent off the dollar. He'll be serving hot dogs in an American restaurant in China. (Mike Murphy (political consultant))
All right you fucks, shut up! We got a call to order! View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
Loyalty is not a small thing. I'm an old Irish pol. No loyalty is owed, if no loyalty was given. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
I'm too pretty to go to jail. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
You have to feel for the French; they were great once. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
My story is very boring. Mostly about hair loss. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
I'd rather cut my arm off than vote for that jerk. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
[T]he only mark-to-market thing in politics is Election Day; everything else is hot air. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
[H]ow popular is the president? Normally, they lose seats when they are kind of average popular. If they are unpopular, it tends to have a magnifying effect. And we do know, from averaging all the polls together, that Donald Trump is the most unpopular first-year president in the history of polling, easily. There's nobody – he is first, second, and third place. So that is a bad thing... You know, there could be a foreign intervening event. Martians land with the same hair and say, you know, "Only he understands us, and we are going to save the planet." But, assuming normalcy, the forces are pretty bad. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
We like to say law, order, freedom - pick one, amigo. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
My father likes to talk about the stroller accident that resulted in me becoming a Republican. (Mike Murphy (political consultant))
[T]he more he governs, often the more trouble he gets into. He does not improve; he gets more unpopular, at least with the two-thirds of the country that is very suspicious of him. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
Any good demagogue is very courageously telling people exactly what they want to hear. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
A Moscow loving grifter is on the loose in the White House. Shame on the Vichy Republicans who constantly enable him. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)
[T]here is no campaign trick or spending level or candidate whisperer that can prevent a party from committing political suicide if it wants to. View quote
Mike Murphy (political consultant)