Mo Brooks Quotes

People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do with the special interest groups that run a lot of Washington.

Would [Betsy DeVos] be my first pick? No. Is she someone who has dedicated her life to education policy? Yes, actually, she has.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

The idea that a big country is going to go out and send troops into some country to take their resources, and then the rest of the world is going to somehow trust us is just a ridiculous notion.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

If it's all win-loss, then you do whatever you can to win and to make money and to beat the deal.

It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment.

The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And so I think it can be very effective, so long as you're not actually crazy.

The question is whether Donald Trump recognizes that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And I guess there's no indication that he regards Putin as in any way a bad guy.

I really think of [Donald] Trump erratic. I think that was the big message that came out. The positive agenda for Hillary [Clinton] was a little less vibrant.

For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.

Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people.

I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

If you withdraw from the game, you're out of the game. And we have withdrawn from the game. And we said Bashar Assad has to go. He's going to stay. So we're out of the game.

If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.

Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

We actually have to have a government. We have to have people confirmed and put into office.

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

I think globalization has been really good for America.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have to take some measures at some point.

Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to be affected by its gravitational pull.

I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected.

Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and in increasing success.

What's interesting about the Trump administration is how bitterly divided they are in their attitudes towards Putin.

I think Trump's attention span is super low. I don't think he has the expertise to actually run a foreign policy.

Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.

I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success.

Two terrible behaviors don't make a good behavior.

Nonetheless, so whether it's unconstitutional or not [for judges to overruling presidents], I leave to others.

Every time Kellyanne Conway goes on TV, there's another fight with whoever's interviewing her that particular day.

I generally think the president [Donald Trump] should get his Cabinet picks, unless they're egregiously out of the range, either ethically or intellectually out of the range of what's acceptable.

Basically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Donald Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Hillary Clinton.

I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range.

It's very hard to find an evangelical person under 45, let alone on some of the Christian college campuses, who has any tolerance for Donald Trump.

Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.

Hillary Clinton continues to say Donald Trump's unacceptable, he doesn't have the character to be president. He is saying - continues saying she needs to be in prison.

[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.