Mara Liasson famous quotes

04-17-2025

The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.
-- Mara Liasson

#Country #Jobs #Thinking
If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.
-- Mara Liasson

#Jobs #Tiny #Problem
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
-- Mara Liasson

#Anniversary #Years #Political
Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.
-- Mara Liasson

#Cold #Sometimes #Keel
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.
-- Mara Liasson

#School #Law #Bridges
Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
-- Mara Liasson

#Campaigns #Voters #Veteran
The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
-- Mara Liasson

#Giving #President #Faces
Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
-- Mara Liasson

#Children #Support #Decision
While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
-- Mara Liasson

#Home #College #Office
As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.
-- Mara Liasson

#Real #War #Party
Senate races have tightened along with the presidential race. Watch to see how many Republican Senate candidates outperform Donald Trump - and how many hang on to their seats in states that he loses.
-- Mara Liasson

#Race #Presidential #Watches
The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.
-- Mara Liasson

#Decision #Poison #Kind
Republicans like Trent Lott, saying [Donald] Trump would be more flexible [then Ted Cruz].
-- Mara Liasson

#Would Be #Republican #Trump
Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.
-- Mara Liasson

#Party #Thinking #House
On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard editor, conservative talk show hosts - they're mounting a big anti-Trump effort, pro-Cruz effort because they think [Donald] Trump is dangerous and he's not qualified to be commander in chief.
-- Mara Liasson

#Thinking #Editors #Issues
Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.
-- Mara Liasson

#Party #Past #Wings
The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.
-- Mara Liasson

#Party #Conservative #Republican
You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.
-- Mara Liasson

#Squad #Trump #Establishment
The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.
-- Mara Liasson

#Party #Lessons #Voters
If Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania wins, for instance, it will tell Republicans that their own brand hasn't been hurt too badly by [Donald] Trump's negatives.
-- Mara Liasson

#Hurt #Winning #Pennsylvania
If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.
-- Mara Liasson

#Assessment #Pessimistic #Election
Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.
-- Mara Liasson

#Government #Conservative #Cruz
Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this was supposed to be their great week. The president gave a speech on terrorism that was not well received. They were working hard to tie Hillary Clinton to the president. Then along comes Donald Trump, and the story changes dramatically.
-- Mara Liasson

#Ties #President #Stories
People like Ted Cruz, who has tried to position himself as the best second choice for [Donald] Trump supporters, wouldn't condemn him.
-- Mara Liasson

#People #Choices #Trump
The enthusiasm for [Donald] Trump had gone up. The net result was it made people more supportive of him.
-- Mara Liasson

#People #Supportive #Gone
There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.
-- Mara Liasson

#Country #Anxiety #Feelings

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