Political Quotes

“That is one of the things I have noticed about this President is just the unapologetic ``I have leverage, and I am going to use it'' aspect of it and nobody bats an eyelash. If you behaved like that, you would get lit on fire, appropriately. So I think one of the things that I have noticed over the last couple of weeks is there's--look, Democrats need to understand, this guy is unusually talented. And we used to say ``what a buffoon,'' whatever-- maybe--but he is a very talented politician in a very unconventional way. But he is also not infallible. He is capable of making incompetent decisions. He is capable of being beaten legislatively and in the court of public opinion. Right now, he is in the saddle because he has all these EOs, all these Executive orders. But, eventually, events overtake. And a President, usually, is responding to events rather than creating conditions on the ground. So part of the thing that I want everybody to kind of understand as they feel their frustration, as they kind of process and try to metabolize the flurry of nonsense coming at the American people, is just to understand it is not always going to be like this. They don't have 1,200 days' worth of Executive orders ready to go. And as these things are--some of them are like wishes and could have been a tweet. Many of them are illegal and, in some cases, the President does have pretty raw authority. Tariffs, he can do; and there is not much the legislature can do about it.…”