Trump Quotes by Neera Tanden

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

— Neera Tanden

After every election, the victors try to define and act on their mandate.

— Neera Tanden

Trump's thin skin is hardly breaking news.

— Neera Tanden

Trump can dismiss polls, but he can't ignore people.

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Trump himself has seemingly courted the favor of Russian President Vladimir Putin since the 2016 presidential campaign.

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In Nancy Pelosi, our country has a perfect example of why we should never choose our leaders because of the attacks by…

— Neera Tanden

Candidates use their negative message to highlight a contrast with their opponent that helps define themselves positively.

— Neera Tanden

I concede that, in the first 18 months of his presidency, Obama has not accomplished all that he campaigned on.

— Neera Tanden

Part of the right-wing noise machine is really focused on telling groups of voters that 'Democrats and liberal elites hate you.'

— Neera Tanden

The Democratic Party, the policies that the Clintons and Hillary believe in, I feel like a living example of someone who benefited.

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For decades, Hillary Clinton has been a lot more than a public champion of child care, paid leave and equal pay. She's…

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A campaign forms the basis for the public's expectations of how the candidate will govern once in office.

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In campaigns, the attacks that candidates make against their opponents define them almost as much as their positive agenda by creating a…

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So far Trump has done everything he could possibly do to pit Americans against each other, to sow division, to fuel distrust…

— Neera Tanden

Elections are based on competing arguments. Of course, issues are integral to those arguments - the very building blocks of them. But…

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I think Donald Trump was successful in capturing "drain the swamp, change Washington, a big screw-you to the status quo" - which…

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I had advised Hillary on policy when she was first lady, a Senate candidate and a senator, so it seemed natural that…

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What a president does communicates a message to the American people, and, sometimes, what he does not do communicates a message as…

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In the back and forth of a campaign, reporters, campaign press staff, and even the candidates can demand new policies in areas…

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The GOP attempted to make the 2018 elections a referendum on Pelosi's potential leadership, not for the first time. For more than…

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I think Trump wanted to use his 2016 campaign to basically say to a lot of folks that liberals hate you. And…

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I think a core principle of the Democratic Party has to be a defense of equal rights for every American. At the…

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Confidence men have a simple rule: never drop the con - even if you're exposed. For Donald Trump, that's a way of…

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The reason I'm so active in politics - literally the reason I've devoted so much time to politics and public service -…

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The left has demanded fire in the belly from Obama. But will it actually have the president's back when he shows it?

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I don't score members of Congress; I don't conceive of my job as moving members of Congress to the utmost left position.

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One of my bosses, as it happens, was Elena Kagan. And I had pretty good vantage for watching her as she crafted…

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I do think that the Trump presidency, even for the resistance, there is pre-Charlottesville and a post-Charlottesville moment, and Donald Trump's response…

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The public wants to know how things are going to get better, and the Republican Party just demonstrated its lack of seriousness…

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Barack Obama came into office in the midst of an economic crisis and yet, shortly into his first term, Republicans suddenly rediscovered…

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Republicans fear Nancy Pelosi because she has Teflon skin and a spine of steel - and because she is a progressive woman…

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Of course, Trump will feed his base alternate facts as long as he can, because he knows it sustains their support for…

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For decades, Hillary has championed the issues that matter to working families: child care, paid leave, equal pay. But she doesn't just…

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True conservatives would not be concerned about deficits when liberals are in power, but then ignore them entirely when the Republican party…

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In my time in Washington, I've watched congressmen, senators and their advisors allow similarly stark polling data to shape their calculus on…

— Neera Tanden

As a former policy director on a presidential campaign, I am sympathetic to the desire to try to propose 'new' policy ideas…

— Neera Tanden