Chuck Todd Quotes

There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.

The White House is dismissing these town hall fireworks as AstroTurf movements which means it`s the opposite of a true grass roots movement.

There are potential policy consequences to a president who doesn`t believe in our election system and believes that there`s rampant voter fraud.

South Carolina put George H.W. Bush into the White House. But George W. Bush into the White House and sent Jeb Bush back to Miami.

Democrats will say the money they give to Planned Parenthood does not go to abortions. That the money they give to Planned Parenthood only goes to other women's health issues, including mammograms and things like that.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

We do know that they are foreign missions today that are using Trump Towers, they say, why wouldn`t we want to show favor to the president of the United States? It would be offensive if we stayed at his competitor`s hotel.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it's his strength.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now.

The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are.

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

Newt Gingrich called it [Donald] Trump`s biggest mistake since he won the election, these crazy accusations about voter fraud.

From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

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.

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

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].

The president-elect [Donald Trump] himself in the interview with "The New York Times" says there is no law that governs conflict of interest in - with the president.

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

[Hillary] Clinton, she conceded. [Donald Trump] beat her.

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

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

[Donald] Trump continues to dismiss those concerns though, even as some Republicans, like Lindsay Graham, are making the case that Trump`s business ties deserve the scrutiny.

We have to be focused on not just who is in [Donald's Trump] favor and who is in his good graces and who looks right or what the palace intrigue is.

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.

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.

I mean, you know, presidents of the United States can`t randomly tweet without having check - - having somebody check it out.

I mean, [tweeting] just - it makes you wonder about whatever else Donald trump is doing. It undermines much more than just a single tweet.

Newt Gingrich gave voice to something that was said throughout this campaign from Democrats and Republicans.

I had some people say to me, you don`t - you wouldn`t give air time to a holocaust denier. Why bother covering if [Donald Trump] tweet is totally crazy?

This feels like a Steve Bannon whispering in [Donald Trump's] ear.

At least on the domestic side of things that you`re seeing, [Mike] Pence has that influence big time. But when it comes with what political fights to have?

[Donald] Trump still thinks he`s in a campaign.

Barack Obama was better as a campaigner than as a - as a president sometimes in this same position. It is easier when you have a foil.

[Barack Obama] was comfortable when he had the foil.

With Rudy [ Giuliani], [Donald Trump] will - the minute they push him too far and start manipulating, he will - he will lash out.

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.

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

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.

More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it.

I've had my own anecdotals with old friends, here's a gentleman quoted in the Times about, "I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn't have to but at this point I don't feel like I have a choice."

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.

Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.