Mike Murphy Quotes

It's a great country.

My story is very boring. Mostly about hair loss.

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

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

Trump is going to go under an electron microscope. And everything I know about Donald Trump, and I know a fair bit about him going back to my Jersey days when he was operating in Atlantic City – that’s where I first kind of encountered him – he is one of the least likely people to survive an electron microscope into his life, I believe, and his business life of anybody. So, my instincts are strongly that they are going to find some stuff.

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

[W]e've got to break this equation of "I'm right, you're evil. So everything you do is suspect, everything you say is a lie, your facts are fake news." Because that is an acid on politics. We've got to get rid of that.

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.

[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.

The pain is legit. But Trump is a stupid vote. Because Trump won't solve any of those things, he'll make them all worse. You're voting against your pain. You're voting to create more. You're going for a kind of witch doctor of politics who is promising things based on magic.

[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.

I don't mind technique... I can be shameless. I have a long career at this. But when everything is a short con, then there's never another short con. Because you need trust, and you've destroyed it.

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.

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

If Trump turns out to be the answer, I'm incredibly proud that Jeb Bush did not want to be any part of the vile question.