I don't think my political opinions, to the extent I have them, are useful. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Politics, as the cliche goes, is a full contact sport. When you choose to play, you're going to get hurt. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Chris Christie's rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
The Tea Party was really a two-front war - one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Back in August 2002, I was hired as a reporter for a website covering New Jersey politics, then still a pretty novel… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
American politics are rich with characters and stereotypes - Joe the Plumber, Harry and Louise, Nascar dads and hockey moms, to name… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
History suggests that the opportunity to run again for the presidency four years after losing is reserved for those who exceeded expectations… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's meeting with the president of Mexico comes after months of bashing that country and its political leadership. Trump has called… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Through the years, through my own conversations, through my own weird obsessions, I think I have developed some very deep politics of… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
What I really love is modern political history. I love the research process, whether it's digging through old newspaper stories, artifacts from… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
We'll always romanticize the past. We did not have this great, glorious era where everything was bipartisan and everything worked, but there… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich's rhetorical tics are well-known - his fondness for the word 'frankly,' his eagerness to frame even the most mundane development… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Ideologically, there are no major differences between the two Pauls, and there are stylistic similarities too; like his dad, Rand hardly minds… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Some coaches keep quiet about politics to avoid alienating boosters and other higher-ups. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people's memories of the '90s are nostalgic. The economy was pretty strong, there was good TV and… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
They say it doesn't get any more Jersey than 24-hour diners. Of course, they say the same thing about women with big hair, hapless… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
It's been a very strange thing to see the attention my clothes have gotten, just because it's so inversely related to the amount of… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I don't think my political opinions, to the extent I have them, are useful. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Prior to civil rights, the Democratic Party had been defined by an increasingly untenable alliance of ideological opposites - integrationist Northern liberals like Hubert… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
We are waiting for Donald Trump's big immigration speech. There are lots of unanswered questions that remain about where exactly Trump stands on deportation… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Generally, the real question in a midterm year is whether the damage for the ruling party will be severe or mild. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
History will always regard Florida as the state that decided the Bush-Gore contest, but if Gore had carried Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West Virginia or… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton broke what was known as the Republican electoral lock on the presidency, and Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992. That… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I don't read a ton of fiction, but Tom Wolfe's death got me to pick up 'The Bonfire of the Vanities.' I'm a slow… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
There's no evidence that coaches with a conservative bent are better coaches or more likely to get jobs. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
It's impossible to overstate the degree to which the '94 GOP revolution shook the political class. Bill Clinton was immediately dismissed as a one-term… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
The Romney who showed up at CPAC in early 2007 vehemently embraced the conservative cause and openly mocked his home state and its liberal reputation. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
