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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another

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.

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

[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.

Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause.

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.

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that "You know what? Push for gun control, but not now."

It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it's irrelevant for outsiders. It's for Muslims to decide whether it's a religion of peace or not.

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?

I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that's the real danger here. It's that what ISIS wants the narrative to be is that they are the true Muslims.

Meanwhile, the Bush dynasty comes to an official end.

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.

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

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.

Jeb Bush is the new John Connelly.

You can't say Hillary Clinton is not evolving as a candidate. And boy is she trying very hard to move to where the Democratic base is.

No Republican has ever won South Carolina and Iowa or New Hampshire, as Trump has, without going on to win the nomination.

I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I mean, you know, presidents of the United States can't randomly tweet without having check - - having somebody check it out.

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?

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

The establishment? Well, guess what? Donald Trump now is the establishment. His primary opponents, many of them are interviewing for White House gigs.

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

[Donald] Trump has many and one of the most obvious is right here in Washington.

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

[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.

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

[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.