Trump Quotes by Steve Schmidt

Elections are about the voters who vote in them.

— Steve Schmidt

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

— Steve Schmidt

Politicians have an acutely honed instinct for self-preservation.

— Steve Schmidt

But I'm not particularly aligned with the Democratic Party's policy agenda.

— Steve Schmidt

Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the…

— Steve Schmidt

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

— Steve Schmidt

For there to be any redemption of a right of center conservative party in the United States of America means the party…

— Steve Schmidt

A lot of people like me who worked in Republican politics had a personal set of beliefs on issues that were at…

— Steve Schmidt

One of the things I'm keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the…

— Steve Schmidt

Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.

— Steve Schmidt

So the Republican party of Teddy Roosevelt and John McCain and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush is dead. It's over. It…

— Steve Schmidt

I've certainly done more than my fair share of pouncing on a stupid issue to win the news cycle of the day,…

— Steve Schmidt

Trump makes no pretense about being the commander in chief of all of the country, being president of all of the people,…

— Steve Schmidt

One of the things that is for sure unique, we have never seen in this country a billion dollar propaganda industry in…

— Steve Schmidt

If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, 'I'm not going to do one thing that…

— Steve Schmidt

What destroyed the Republican Party isn't Trump. It's the obedience to Trump from servile leaders like McConnell and Ryan who could have…

— Steve Schmidt

John Kerry's newfound interest in fiscal discipline is a political gimmick that defies his 20-year record in the Senate and stands in…

— Steve Schmidt

There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the…

— Steve Schmidt

To see the Republican Party break up the way it has to lose its moral compass it is tragic, it's tragic for…

— Steve Schmidt

I don't want to sit here and disparage Paul Ryan the man, because he's a good guy. He's a moral person. He's…

— Steve Schmidt

Trump was legitimized by birtherism, and he was abetted by a billion-dollar incitement industry.

— Steve Schmidt

I've spent my life in the Republican party, it gives me no pleasure to say this. This party has demonstrated a complete…

— Steve Schmidt

The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn't.

— Steve Schmidt

I profoundly believe that the Democratic Party is the only vehicle we have to put a check on Donald Trump.

— Steve Schmidt

The reality is that our Founders always predicted that one day there would be a president like Trump, and that's why they…

— Steve Schmidt