Quotes

[to an inquiry whether Mitt Romney would likely be visiting his hurricane-swept state] I have a job to do. I've got 2.4 million people out of power, I've got devastation on the shore, I've got floods in the northern part of my state. If you think right now I give a damn about Presidential politics, then you don't know me.

Sometimes people make politics too complicated. It's not too complex. It's about personal relationships.

[on relying inordinately on reasoning in politics] College professors are fine, I guess. If we don't win we don't govern. And if we don't govern, all we do is shout into the wind.

If people had a choice between prepackaged, blow-dried politicians and people who just say it the way it is, I think they would pick the latter.

Politics ain't beanbag.

[to fellow-Republicans] We've got to start talking about what we're for, not continuing to rail about what we're against. Leadership is not standing on the sidelines and spit-balling.

We reject the racism and violence of white nationalists like the ones acting out in Charlottesville. Everyone in leadership must speak out.[August 2017]

[on a possible Trump 2023 indictment] The problem with all of this is that it's self-inflicted. In the end, I don't know that the government even knew that Joe Biden had those documents or not. They did know Donald Trump did and in fact asked voluntarily for them for over a year and a quarter and got them back in dribs and drabs