Mike Murphy (political consultant) quotes - page 2

The pain is legit. But Trump is a stupid vote. Because Trump won't solve any of those things, he'll make them all worse. You're voting against your pain. You're voting to create more. You're going for a kind of witch doctor of politics who is promising things based on magic. (Mike Murphy (political consultant))
If Napoleon had nuclear subs, we'd all be speaking French. So, the history thing can be oversold. View quote
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If Trump turns out to be the answer, I'm incredibly proud that Jeb Bush did not want to be any part of the vile question. View quote
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It's a great country. View quote
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I'm a Detroit guy. View quote
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It's a choice between Trump, who is terrible for the country, and Cruz, who is terrible for the party. He's too smart for his act ... and he's probably pissed that a bigger con man showed up. View quote
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[I]f your banker comes in one day wearing a diaper, speaking gibberish, you're going to pull your money out of that checking account. View quote
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I don't mind a good fight on an issue. I like that stuff. I don't mind negative ads. But when the fighting is over meaningless stuff, like "you're-low-energy-because-you-use-big-words-and-don't-hate-anybody-and-I-wear-a-red-hat-that-says-Make-America-Great-Again-because-I-played-a-business-guy-on-TV"? We cheapen the category to the point where we're getting an outcome that is actually a bit dangerous. View quote
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My revenge is living well... I want to go get on a freighter and go through the Panama Canal. All I've ever wanted in my life is freedom and access. I like being backstage and watching the weird, human drama of all of these strange personalities that politics attracts. View quote
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[O]ld lady sends her $25 to defeat Nancy Pelosi, and $22 of it goes to "fundraising costs". View quote
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[Y]ou can't have grievance politics without endless whining. I think if you got the Founding Fathers or the first hundred guys killed at Anzio Beach, brought them back to life, and said, "What do you think of all this?" "What a bunch of whiners. Have you ever had 400 Germans coming at ya? Put on a red hat and say Make America Great Again? What have you done, pal?" (Mike Murphy (political consultant))
Trump has gotten six or seven stories in his presidency so far, that if they happened in 1981, there would have been serious talk about the president needing to resign. And that's gone now, that ray gun of, "We don't do this. You can't get away with that" is pretty much gone. View quote
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[T]he larger moral cowardice that has overtaken the party... Trump's shtick is that he's the grievance candidate... He's focused on the economically squeezed Caucasian voter... He is speaking to that rage. Mexican rapists, clever Chinese traders, African American people as dogs. That's Trump's DNA. View quote
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Whatever interesting things America have happened, they've happened first in California. View quote
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[W]e've got to break this equation of "I'm right, you're evil. So everything you do is suspect, everything you say is a lie, your facts are fake news." Because that is an acid on politics. We've got to get rid of that. View quote
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Well, you know, the future is always unmade, and my crystal ball is badly cracked because I'm one of the geniuses that said that "Trump is going to lose by a couple of million votes; he can't win." Well, he lost by a couple of million popular votes, but in the Electoral College, very narrowly, he was able to win. View quote
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I've said the Romney scenario just because: Right about Putin, right about Obama, right about Trump. And he's no drama; a nice boring presidency of competence. View quote
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I'm not an establishmentarian... You think I really want the guys in polyester suits in Springfield, Virginia, running the fucking country? ... I'm an iconoclast, but I am an elitist - with incredibly popular taste. View quote
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GOP last tracks have been lurching in wrong direction. Big thanks to ol' POTUS who is working so hard to make the midterms all about him and his epic racist madness. View quote
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