I long ago tired of politicians who never say anything, adhere to their talking points, and avoid all controversy. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
With a sinking feeling, I have come to a horrible conclusion: I am addicted to Donald Trump. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump's overriding accomplishment is plain: The Republican Party can no longer be shamed. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump is a dust storm of lies and diversions with the bellows of a bully and the greasy ethics of a street-corner… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
As a presidential candidate, Trump seems heaven-sent just to make fools out of Republicans. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
How is it possible to defame Trump? When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a 'moron,' was that defamatory or… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
What if Hillary Clinton were a man? What if she were a 68-year-old man rather than a 68-year-old woman? Would we think… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Trump's presidency will fail. Just don't ask me how and when. It will collapse because at its center is a hollow man,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and insisting that… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want to be.… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
The ultimate question is whether the name Donald Trump will be attached to an era - whether he will so change America that it… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
When I was a kid, I went door to door in my neighborhood asking for donations to the Jewish National Fund, best known then… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
I met Clinton during her husband's first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped at a… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
In power politics, it's usually not enough to be liked. A nation has to be considered essential. — Richard Cohen Copy Share
My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
“The book is warm. The book is handy. The book is handsome to the eye. The book occupies the shelf of the owner and… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious… — Richard Cohen Copy Share
