Steve Schmidt

“It's not just that there's no other spokesperson for the executive seat of power in a democratic republic anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying. It's that there's never been a spokesman for the executive seat in power who is such a prolific liar as Sarah Sanders.”

“Trump was legitimized by birtherism, and he was abetted by a billion-dollar incitement industry.”

“A mark of stupidity is a belief that one party is totally virtuous and correct on the issues while the other is evil and always wrong.”

“For there to be any redemption of a right of center conservative party in the United States of America means the party of Trump must be destroyed politically.”

“I think the notion of Sarah Palin being president of the United States is something that frightens me, frankly.”

“Your average Republican member of Congress, if you played a word association game with them and said, 'Latino,' they're going to respond 'illegal immigrant,' as opposed to 'sergeant major' or 'surgeon' or 'professor.'”

“The government is corrupted. It's corrupted. It is not about regular people.”

“The reality is that our Founders always predicted that one day there would be a president like Trump, and that's why they designed the system of government the way they designed it.”

“One of the things I'm keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the Republican Party, has become a racket.”

“When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.”

“If you want to oppose Trump, the first thing you should do is say, 'I'm not going to do one thing that makes it worse.' Because making it worse helps Trump. Part of the damage of this era is his debasement and his purposeful divisions. That's unique in all of history.”

“If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.”