Mike Murphy

Loyalty is not a small thing. I'm an old Irish pol. No loyalty is owed, if no loyalty was given.

[H]ow popular is the president? Normally, they lose seats when they are kind of average popular. If they are unpopular, it tends to have a magnifying effect. And we do know, from averaging all the polls together, that Donald Trump is the most unpopular first-year president in the history of polling, easily. There’s nobody – he is first, second, and third place. So that is a bad thing... You know, there could be a foreign intervening event. Martians land with the same hair and say, you know, "Only he understands us, and we are going to save the planet." But, assuming normalcy, the forces are pretty bad.

In the end, they killed Rasputin.

Whatever interesting things America have happened, they've happened first in California.

[T]he more he governs, often the more trouble he gets into. He does not improve; he gets more unpopular, at least with the two-thirds of the country that is very suspicious of him.

You think the pissed-off steelworker in Akron has trouble now? Wait until we have a financial collapse and they take 25 percent off the dollar. He'll be serving hot dogs in an American restaurant in China.

[I]f your banker comes in one day wearing a diaper, speaking gibberish, you're going to pull your money out of that checking account.

[O]ld lady sends her $25 to defeat Nancy Pelosi, and $22 of it goes to "fundraising costs".

[Y]ou can't have grievance politics without endless whining. I think if you got the Founding Fathers or the first hundred guys killed at Anzio Beach, brought them back to life, and said, "What do you think of all this?" "What a bunch of whiners. Have you ever had 400 Germans coming at ya? Put on a red hat and say Make America Great Again? What have you done, pal?"

[T]he disease of the Republican Party is we treat base voters like swing voters, when, in fact, is you want to put the base under some pain to attract other people to get to a majority number.

Now, there is of course one great rescue device for the Republican Party that we have thankfully relied on time and time again and that of course is the Democrats.

Everything is a racial stereotype with him half the time; we've got to admit that about Trump.

People get what they vote for.

If Napoleon had nuclear subs, we’d all be speaking French. So, the history thing can be oversold.

I'd rather cut my arm off than vote for that jerk.