Chuck Todd Quotes - Page 5

[Barack] Obama, he`ll be out of office soon and, frankly,[Donald] Trump relies on him .

The president-elect [Donald Trump] finds himself in an unfamiliar and, perhaps, uncomfortable position. The enemies he`s been fighting against are gone.

Like the others though,[Donald] Trump thrives when he has a clear enemy.

[Muhammad] Ali had [Jo] Frazier , that man had the joker, Coke had Pepsi and [Donald] Trump had [Barack] Obama, or 16 primary opponents or the entire political establishment.

I`m obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

It's funny how the history of Jeb Bush is going to be rewritten.

Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.

The rules have changed so dramatically.They are not the Jeb Bush rules of the 90s, they are the reality television rules of this decade and he was not suited for it.

[Donald] Trump`s pension for distractions is starting to frustrate members of his own party.

House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, slammed [Donald's] Trump`s wild claims about election fraud, saying, quote, "The election is over, let`s move on."

I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes.

I think [Newt] Gingrich who`s been the - among the truth tellers to [Donald] Trump, I think, in public, take a listen.

I include Rudy Giuliani here who, in many ways, is more comfortable as a neocon.

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump`s foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

The State Department has been your beat for so long. It has always smelled like Bob Corker was the in case of emergency, the easy guy.

Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It`s all pretty extraordinary.

You`ve got David Petraeus and whatever the pushback might be against [Donald Trump].

We`ve seen Senator Corker who had indicated to me,that he didn`t think he was still in the running but might now be a fallback position if this Mitt Romney versus Rudy Giuliani dispute is that serious.

T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn`t come in person today to get his two cents in.

There isn`t but this is, in some ways, perhaps, a useful distraction from other things, giving [Donald Trump] more space to make his decisions as unusual the process is because he`s making them in public.

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he`s creating new ones. There`s no precedent for it.

As the saying goes, when you`re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[Donald] Trump is most comfortable when he is hammering something.

Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump`s comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.