Trump Quotes by George Packer

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

— George Packer

Politics should seize the imagination.

— George Packer

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

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Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy.

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We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

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What can one man do even if he is the president?

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How a candidate runs shapes how a president governs.

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I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree…

— George Packer

We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.

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Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

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Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

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When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he…

— George Packer

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

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When Donald Trump says make America great again, we know whose America that is.

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American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

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I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful…

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The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of…

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Hillary Clinton's such a classic Democratic political figure and believes so much in institutions and in gradualism in the old way of…

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We all have a dark side but we keep it in its place because it's destructive. And Donald Trump has said, no,…

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I don't think of Hillary Clinton as a bad choice. She's an uninspiring choice. She is a deeply imperfect choice, largely for…

— George Packer

If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes…

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When Donald Trump yells at his supporters to throw somebody out of the hall - and usually that somebody is brown or…

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Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have…

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The ranks of educated professional swelled as more Americans went to college and more Americans sort of adopted a more cosmopolitan lifestyle…

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The way Donald Trump talks about the problems of black Americans as a kind of separate group who are not part of…

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In a sense, whites who were always sort of the unthinking majority who didn't think of themselves necessarily as one among many…

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Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of…

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If Hillary Clinton becomes president, how is she going to be able to get the country behind her when she seems like…

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Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways…

— George Packer