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

The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.

— 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

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

I'm personally supportive of marriage equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time.

— Steve Schmidt

I think there are really serious problems in this country and I think politics in a lot of ways is failing the…

— Steve Schmidt

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

— Steve Schmidt

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

— Steve Schmidt

As a conservative myself that, you know, generally I would have a point of view that less regulation is better than more…

— 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

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

For there to be new growth of a conservative movement, of a right center party, the one that I joined in 1988,…

— 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

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

— Steve Schmidt

In a social media age, it seems that everyone lives in their own reality and that when you give consideration to Newt…

— Steve Schmidt

My role in Palin is something that there's not a day that has gone by that I don't have regret about.

— Steve Schmidt

I've been involved in a lot of victories and I've been involved in defeats.

— Steve Schmidt

I would find it difficult to be involved in an effort that I think disenfranchises people from a fundamental right. How do…

— Steve Schmidt

Howard Schultz is a hell of a man, a hell of a leader.

— 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

It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world…

— Steve Schmidt

This is not Trumpistan.

— Steve Schmidt

It's part of the mythology now in the Republican Party that there's widespread voter fraud all across the country. In fact, there's…

— Steve Schmidt

I do think there is every potential in 2010 and 2012 to begin to see independent candidates who are capturing a significant…

— Steve Schmidt

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

— Steve Schmidt