--- title: "13 Trump Quotes By Jon Meacham" description: "13 Trump quotes by Jon Meacham. Plus more from Jon Meacham and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/jon-meacham-2863_compromise_a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality_1427415.png" --- > [“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality-and-policy-into-the-greatest/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/jon-meacham-2863_compromise_a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality_1427415.png) > [President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/president-obama-is-now-losing-to-republican-nominee-in-polls-no-name/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/jon-meacham-2863_losing_president-obama-is-now-losing-to-republi_2665847.png) > [Barack Obama is many things; among them, he is a tough and even ferocious political warrior.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/barack-obama-is-many-things-among-them-he-is-a-tough-and-even/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/585/jon-meacham-2863_barack_barack-obama-is-many-things-among-them-h_1079881.png) > [Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/reagan-is-the-republican-fdr-an-exemplar-of-presidential-greatness/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fe/jon-meacham-2863_greatness_reagan-is-the-republican-fdr-an-exemplar_395108.png) > [“He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/he-turned-the-presidency-and-the-president-s-house-into-something-it/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/jon-meacham-2863_curiosity_he-turned-the-presidency-and-the-preside_2331830.png) > [“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/politics-is-brutal-because-it-engages-the-most-fundamental-human/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc7/jon-meacham-2863_brutal_politics-is-brutal-because-it-engages-th_1286683.png) > [“Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/politics-was-at-once-clinical-and-human-driven-by-principles-and/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d05/jon-meacham-2863_emotions_politics-was-at-once-clinical-and-human_2507534.png) > [Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/incumbent-white-house-parties-have-won-10-of-the-last-18-presidential/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddf/jon-meacham-2863_checks_incumbent-white-house-parties-have-won-1_3065383.jpg) > [“Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/politicians-often-talk-too-much-and-listen-too-little-which-can-be/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/jon-meacham-2863_politicians_politicians-often-talk-too-much-and-list_1253787.jpg) > [The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/the-lesson-of-the-clinton-years-and-of-obama-s-win-of-both-the/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/jon-meacham-2863_both_the-lesson-of-the-clinton-years-and-of-o_2370921.png) > [One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/one-wonders-whether-the-obama-re-election-campaign-may-be-on-the/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/jon-meacham-2863_american_one-wonders-whether-the-obama-re-electio_346420.jpg) > [“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet officers at the president’s table. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/there-was-of-course-a-more-immediate-point-to-frequent-gatherings-of/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/jon-meacham-2863_trump_there-was-of-course-a-more-immediate-poi_304634.png) > [“A high-flying politician,” Hopkinson wrote, “is I think not unlike a balloon—he is full of inflammability, he is driven along by every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/a-high-flying-politician-hopkinson-wrote-is-i-think-not-unlike-a/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/jon-meacham-2863_politics_a-high-flying-politician-hopkinson-wrote_1481897.png) ## Other authors on Trump ## More by Jon Meacham > [Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/scripture-is-not-inerrant-believers-are-called-to-interpret-biblical/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/as-a-southerner-born-after-the-epic-events-of-the-civil-rights/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/we-are-now-living-in-a-post-roosevelt-post-reagan-universe-what-comes/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [“his other hand. Sensitive to his guest’s affliction, Churchill realized that “every step” was”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/his-other-hand-sensitive-to-his-guest-s-affliction-churchill-realized/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/too-many-activists-have-convinced-themselves-that-they-have-a/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/in-the-fullness-of-time-i-suspect-that-bigotry-against-homosexuals/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/mysteries-and-thrillers-are-not-the-same-things-though-they-are/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the historian William…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/when-lincoln-was-running-for-the-house-of-representatives-from/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [“The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/the-man-who-has-not-music-in-his-soul-or-is-not-touch-d-with-concord/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/i-am-an-episcopalian-who-takes-the-faith-of-my-fathers-seriously-and/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/only-the-most-unapologetic-biblical-fundamentalists-for-instance-take/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet officers at the president’s table. It tends to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/there-was-of-course-a-more-immediate-point-to-frequent-gatherings-of/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [“For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of like-minded, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/for-jefferson-william-and-mary-was-largely-about-what-university-life/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/one-wonders-whether-the-obama-re-election-campaign-may-be-on-the/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) > [Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/reagan-is-the-republican-fdr-an-exemplar-of-presidential-greatness/) [Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/jon-meacham/#itemlist", "name": "13 Trump Quotes By Jon Meacham", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality-and-policy-into-the-greatest/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/jon-meacham-2863_compromise_a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality_1427415.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/jon-meacham-2863_compromise_a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality_1427415.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/jon-meacham-2863_compromise_a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality_1427415.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and…” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/president-obama-is-now-losing-to-republican-nominee-in-polls-no-name/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/jon-meacham-2863_losing_president-obama-is-now-losing-to-republi_2665847.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/jon-meacham-2863_losing_president-obama-is-now-losing-to-republi_2665847.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a95/jon-meacham-2863_losing_president-obama-is-now-losing-to-republi_2665847.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“President Obama is now losing to 'Republican Nominee' in polls - no name needed.” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Barack Obama is many things; 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And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/incumbent-white-house-parties-have-won-10-of-the-last-18-presidential/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddf/jon-meacham-2863_checks_incumbent-white-house-parties-have-won-1_3065383.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddf/jon-meacham-2863_checks_incumbent-white-house-parties-have-won-1_3065383.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddf/jon-meacham-2863_checks_incumbent-white-house-parties-have-won-1_3065383.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but…” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances the surer route to winning a friend is not to convince them that you are right but that you care what they think.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/politicians-often-talk-too-much-and-listen-too-little-which-can-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/jon-meacham-2863_politicians_politicians-often-talk-too-much-and-list_1253787.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/jon-meacham-2863_politicians_politicians-often-talk-too-much-and-list_1253787.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/jon-meacham-2863_politicians_politicians-often-talk-too-much-and-list_1253787.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Politicians often talk too much and listen too little, which can be self-defeating, for in many instances…” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008 is that Democrats need to be as tough as JFK was.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/the-lesson-of-the-clinton-years-and-of-obama-s-win-of-both-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/jon-meacham-2863_both_the-lesson-of-the-clinton-years-and-of-o_2370921.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/jon-meacham-2863_both_the-lesson-of-the-clinton-years-and-of-o_2370921.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f2/jon-meacham-2863_both_the-lesson-of-the-clinton-years-and-of-o_2370921.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The lesson of the Clinton years and of Obama's win of both the nomination and the general election in 2008…” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the you-break-it-you-own-it rule to Bush and the American economy. Hardly a day goes by without President Obama or his surrogates arguing that it takes longer than four years to recover from an economic crisis so long in the making.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/one-wonders-whether-the-obama-re-election-campaign-may-be-on-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/jon-meacham-2863_american_one-wonders-whether-the-obama-re-electio_346420.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/jon-meacham-2863_american_one-wonders-whether-the-obama-re-electio_346420.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2f/jon-meacham-2863_american_one-wonders-whether-the-obama-re-electio_346420.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply the…” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet officers at the president’s table. It tends to be more difficult to oppose—or at least to vilify—someone with whom you have broken bread and drunk wine. Caricatures crack as courses are served; imagined demonic plots fade with dessert.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/there-was-of-course-a-more-immediate-point-to-frequent-gatherings-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/jon-meacham-2863_trump_there-was-of-course-a-more-immediate-poi_304634.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/jon-meacham-2863_trump_there-was-of-course-a-more-immediate-poi_304634.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/jon-meacham-2863_trump_there-was-of-course-a-more-immediate-poi_304634.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet…” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“A high-flying politician,” Hopkinson wrote, “is I think not unlike a balloon—he is full of inflammability, he is driven along by every current of wind, and those who will suffer themselves to be carried up by them run a great risk that the bubble may burst and let them fall from the height to which a principle of levity had raised them.”6”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jon Meacham" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/a-high-flying-politician-hopkinson-wrote-is-i-think-not-unlike-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/jon-meacham-2863_politics_a-high-flying-politician-hopkinson-wrote_1481897.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/jon-meacham-2863_politics_a-high-flying-politician-hopkinson-wrote_1481897.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/jon-meacham-2863_politics_a-high-flying-politician-hopkinson-wrote_1481897.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A high-flying politician,” Hopkinson wrote, “is I think not unlike a balloon—he is full of inflammability…” — Jon Meacham", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/jon-meacham/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/jon-meacham/", "name": "Trump Quotes by Jon Meacham", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/jon-meacham/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e8/jon-meacham-2863_compromise_a-politician-s-task-was-to-bring-reality_1427415.png" }, "description": "13 Trump quotes by Jon Meacham. 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