--- title: "14 Trump Quotes By Mark Steyn" description: "14 Trump quotes by Mark Steyn. Plus more from Mark Steyn and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/mark-steyn-1844_degrees_the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulen_2185014.png" --- > [The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulently-racist-and-pro-slavery-to/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/mark-steyn-1844_degrees_the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulen_2185014.png) > [The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/the-democrats-smell-blood-and-don-t-want-to-be-told-that-it-s-their/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/mark-steyn-1844_blood_the-democrats-smell-blood-and-don-t-want_2744745.png) > [Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/mitt-has-a-ton-of-consultants-and-not-one-of-them-thought-he-needed-a/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/mark-steyn-1844_answer_mitt-has-a-ton-of-consultants-and-not-on_2200207.png) > [The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/the-romney-candidacy-is-better-than-it-was-four-years-ago-but-it-s/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/617/mark-steyn-1844_belly_the-romney-candidacy-is-better-than-it-w_2341305.png) > [Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/even-if-you-don-t-mind-romneycare-or-the-abortion-flip-flop-or-any-of/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8f/mark-steyn-1844_abortion_even-if-you-don-t-mind-romneycare-or-the_2596938.jpg) > [Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/contemporary-politics-is-all-about-phony-energy-about-running-around/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d98/mark-steyn-1844_contemporary_contemporary-politics-is-all-about-phony_1855371.jpg) > [Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/sometimes-societies-become-too-stupid-to-survive-a-nation-that-takes/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/766/mark-steyn-1844_barack_sometimes-societies-become-too-stupid-to_2622042.png) > [“At bottom, today's Democrats from Baucus to Waters are united in only two beliefs, and they demand that American citizens believe in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/at-bottom-today-s-democrats-from-baucus-to-waters-are-united-in-only/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b5/mark-steyn-1844_democrats_at-bottom-today-s-democrats-from-baucus_984816.png) > [I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/i-don-t-think-donald-trump-is-a-conservative-i-think-his-line-on/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/mark-steyn-1844_billions_i-don-t-think-donald-trump-is-a-conserva_169466.png) > [“Abraham Lincoln, a predecessor of Barack Obama in both the White House and the Illinois state legislature, had eighteen months of formal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/abraham-lincoln-a-predecessor-of-barack-obama-in-both-the-white-house/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/mark-steyn-1844_abraham-lincoln_abraham-lincoln-a-predecessor-of-barack_3177223.png) > [So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/so-there-was-president-obama-giving-his-bazillionth-speech-on-health/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/mark-steyn-1844_care_so-there-was-president-obama-giving-his_3038554.jpg) > [ “\[Obama\] was the Harvard Law Review president who never published a word, the community organizer who never organized a thing, the state… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/obama-was-the-harvard-law-review-president-who-never-published-a-word/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0de/mark-steyn-1844_first-time_obama-was-the-harvard-law-review-preside_1214797.jpg) > [“Our new elite have more refined sensibilities than the old aristocracy: just as dowager duchesses would sniff that so-and-so was "in trade",…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/our-new-elite-have-more-refined-sensibilities-than-the-old/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/mark-steyn-1844_sarah-palin_our-new-elite-have-more-refined-sensibil_1784642.jpg) > [“America and Greece are at different stops on the same one-way street, all too familiar to us immigrants. There's nothing new about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/america-and-greece-are-at-different-stops-on-the-same-one-way-street/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ee/mark-steyn-1844_ellis-island_america-and-greece-are-at-different-stop_1732533.jpg) ## Other authors on Trump ## More by Mark Steyn > [Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/popular-culture-as-a-whole-is-popular-but-in-today-s-fragmented/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [“The populations of wealthy democratic societies expect to have total choice over their satellite TV packages, yet think it perfectly normal to allow the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/the-populations-of-wealthy-democratic-societies-expect-to-have-total/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/for-al-gore-and-paul-ehrlich-and-co-whatever-the-problem-the-solution/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/sadly-a-u-s-invasion-of-iraq-would-threaten-the-whole-stability-of/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/i-don-t-think-donald-trump-is-a-conservative-i-think-his-line-on/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/a-big-chunk-of-western-civilization-consciously-or-otherwise-has/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/but-that-s-islam-in-the-third-millennium-they-want-the-certainties-of/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/the-progressive-left-can-be-in-favor-of-big-government-or-population/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [“But in practice the lack of belief in divine presence is just as likely to lead to humans avoiding responsibility: if there's nothing other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/but-in-practice-the-lack-of-belief-in-divine-presence-is-just-as/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/no-family-of-an-american-hostage-has-ever-been-prosecuted-for-paying/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [“America is now a land that rewards failure--at the personal, corporate and state level. If you reward it, you get more of it. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/america-is-now-a-land-that-rewards-failure-at-the-personal-corporate/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/obama-s-nobel-peace-prize-is-an-exquisite-act-of-condescension-from/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [“You cannot wage a sustained ideological assault on your own civilization without grave consequences. We are approaching the end of the Anglo-American moment, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/you-cannot-wage-a-sustained-ideological-assault-on-your-own/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/almost-by-definition-secularism-cannot-be-a-future-it-s-a-present/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) > [Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/her-majesty-s-government-is-engaging-not-merely-in-orwellian-newspeak/) [Mark Steyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-steyn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/mark-steyn/#itemlist", "name": "14 Trump Quotes By Mark Steyn", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the English-speaking world!", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulently-racist-and-pro-slavery-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/mark-steyn-1844_degrees_the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulen_2185014.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/mark-steyn-1844_degrees_the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulen_2185014.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/mark-steyn-1844_degrees_the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulen_2185014.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Democratic Party is uniquely virulently racist and pro-slavery to a degree unseen anywhere in the…” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/the-democrats-smell-blood-and-don-t-want-to-be-told-that-it-s-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/mark-steyn-1844_blood_the-democrats-smell-blood-and-don-t-want_2744745.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/mark-steyn-1844_blood_the-democrats-smell-blood-and-don-t-want_2744745.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/mark-steyn-1844_blood_the-democrats-smell-blood-and-don-t-want_2744745.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/mitt-has-a-ton-of-consultants-and-not-one-of-them-thought-he-needed-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/mark-steyn-1844_answer_mitt-has-a-ton-of-consultants-and-not-on_2200207.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/mark-steyn-1844_answer_mitt-has-a-ton-of-consultants-and-not-on_2200207.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/mark-steyn-1844_answer_mitt-has-a-ton-of-consultants-and-not-on_2200207.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. 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I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/i-don-t-think-donald-trump-is-a-conservative-i-think-his-line-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/mark-steyn-1844_billions_i-don-t-think-donald-trump-is-a-conserva_169466.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/mark-steyn-1844_billions_i-don-t-think-donald-trump-is-a-conserva_169466.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/mark-steyn-1844_billions_i-don-t-think-donald-trump-is-a-conserva_169466.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. 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Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, and became a \"community organizer.\" I'm not sure that's progress--and it's certainly not \"sustainable.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/abraham-lincoln-a-predecessor-of-barack-obama-in-both-the-white-house/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/mark-steyn-1844_abraham-lincoln_abraham-lincoln-a-predecessor-of-barack_3177223.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/mark-steyn-1844_abraham-lincoln_abraham-lincoln-a-predecessor-of-barack_3177223.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d22/mark-steyn-1844_abraham-lincoln_abraham-lincoln-a-predecessor-of-barack_3177223.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Abraham Lincoln, a predecessor of Barack Obama in both the White House and the Illinois state legislature…” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/so-there-was-president-obama-giving-his-bazillionth-speech-on-health/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/mark-steyn-1844_care_so-there-was-president-obama-giving-his_3038554.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/mark-steyn-1844_care_so-there-was-president-obama-giving-his_3038554.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76b/mark-steyn-1844_care_so-there-was-president-obama-giving-his_3038554.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is…” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“[Obama] was the Harvard Law Review president who never published a word, the community organizer who never organized a thing, the state legislator who voted present. And then one day came the day when it wasn't enough simply to be. For the first time in his life, he had to do it. And it turns out he can't.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/obama-was-the-harvard-law-review-president-who-never-published-a-word/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0de/mark-steyn-1844_first-time_obama-was-the-harvard-law-review-preside_1214797.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0de/mark-steyn-1844_first-time_obama-was-the-harvard-law-review-preside_1214797.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0de/mark-steyn-1844_first-time_obama-was-the-harvard-law-review-preside_1214797.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[Obama] was the Harvard Law Review president who never published a word, the community organizer who never…” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Our new elite have more refined sensibilities than the old aristocracy: just as dowager duchesses would sniff that so-and-so was \"in trade\", so today's rulers have an antipathy to doers in general. How could Sarah Palin's executive experience running a state, a town, and a commercial fishing operation compare to all that experience Barack Obama had in sitting around thinking great thoughts? In forming his war cabinet, Winston Churchill said that he didn't want to fill it up with \"mere advisors at large with nothing to do but think and talk.\" But Obama sent the Oval Office bust of Sir Winston back to the British, and now we have a government by men who've done nothing but \"think and talk\". There was less private-sector business experience in Obama's cabinet than in any administration going back a century.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/our-new-elite-have-more-refined-sensibilities-than-the-old/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/mark-steyn-1844_sarah-palin_our-new-elite-have-more-refined-sensibil_1784642.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/mark-steyn-1844_sarah-palin_our-new-elite-have-more-refined-sensibil_1784642.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e0/mark-steyn-1844_sarah-palin_our-new-elite-have-more-refined-sensibil_1784642.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our new elite have more refined sensibilities than the old aristocracy: just as dowager duchesses would…” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“America and Greece are at different stops on the same one-way street, all too familiar to us immigrants. There's nothing new about Obama: been there, done that. Nothing could be less hopeful, or less of a change. He's the land where we grew up, with its union bullies and marginal tax rates and government automobiles and general air of decay all re-emerging Brigadoon-like from the mists entirely unspoilt by progress. it's like docking at Ellis Island in 1883, coming down the gangplank, and finding everyone excited about this pilot program they've introduced called \"serfdom\".”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark Steyn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-steyn/america-and-greece-are-at-different-stops-on-the-same-one-way-street/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ee/mark-steyn-1844_ellis-island_america-and-greece-are-at-different-stop_1732533.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ee/mark-steyn-1844_ellis-island_america-and-greece-are-at-different-stop_1732533.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ee/mark-steyn-1844_ellis-island_america-and-greece-are-at-different-stop_1732533.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“America and Greece are at different stops on the same one-way street, all too familiar to us immigrants…” — Mark Steyn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/mark-steyn/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/mark-steyn/", "name": "Trump Quotes by Mark Steyn", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/mark-steyn/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc4/mark-steyn-1844_degrees_the-democratic-party-is-uniquely-virulen_2185014.png" }, "description": "14 Trump quotes by Mark Steyn. 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