Steve Inskeep Quotes

Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

We have to remember in that Bloomberg poll, strong Republican support for [Donald ]Trump's proposal, but the country at large - strong opposition to that support.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and liberals should do now. Some Democrats answer nothing.

People are supposed to be loyal to the country above [Donald's Trump] family.

Donald Trump places great faith in his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.

The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

We need to be stronger. We need to deter the Russians. We need to show resolve, which is why cooperating with them on the other hand can be more difficult.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

The fact that - I mean, these are things to be talked about. You can't do anything without educating the public, right? And that's a slow work.

Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

In this country tonight, PBS shows one of the most talked about tributes of the year.

Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a threat.

Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

Ever since [Ronald] Reagan, they've been able to capture the message and an understanding - or persuade people of a certain understanding of what the nation is about and what's good for it.

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

[Democrats] have lost the capacity to speak to the vast middle of America, an America that is, in large part, white, very religious and not highly educated.

Democrats have simply lost the country.

President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.