Chuck Todd Quotes

Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.

[Donald] Trump's business conflicts are big enough and have come up throughout various aspects of this transition.

[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.

The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.

I include Rudy Giuliani here who, in many ways, is more comfortable as a neocon.

The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That's not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.

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.

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

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

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.

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

We're in a political depression - a great political depression

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.

The fastest growing political party is no party.

I think the worst thing [Donald Trump]did was the tweet the other night about illegal votes.

The democrats are a coastal party.

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

We'll go here on [Donald] Trump's temperament. Trump's reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.

It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.

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."

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.

Paul Ryan, was saying [on election 2016 "I don't see any evidence of systemic fraud."

A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, "Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?"

Nobody likes to feel like they're on the losing side of anything.

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.

Tim Ryan does not look like the 21st century democratic party. And should that matter?

Hillary Clinton's popular vote lead is now up to 2.3 million votes, but get this, [Donald] Trump's percentage of the popular vote has now dropped to 46.4 percent.

President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.

Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It's the only way.

Once Donald Trump takes the oath of office as president of the United States, the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution makes it clear that he cannot accept those favors.

[Donald Trump] needs to take action today before he becomes president so he doesn't violate the Constitution.

The Democratic lawmakers are still trying to figure out how to capitalize on this new wave of leftist anger, if you want to call it that.

If you're in a safe Republican district, say Congressman [ Gus] Bilirakis,you probably don't have much to worry about which is why you can get away with talking about death panels.

It couldn't be clearer, any person who holds an office of trust is not allowed to accept favors or gifts from foreign governments.

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.

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].

T.V. style pageant of people parading through Rudy Giuliani, now on the phone, if he doesn't come in person today to get his two cents in.

[Donald Trump] has got his own controversies to deal with. The business conflicts are a big one. But he's creating new ones. There's no precedent for it.

[Donald] Trump is most comfortable when he is hammering something.

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.