124 Quotes by Steve Schmidt

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.

As a conservative myself that, you know, generally I would have a point of view that less regulation is better than more regulation, but less regulation shouldn't supersede a tax on the fundamentally important institutions that sustain a democratic republic.

My fidelity is to my country, not my political party. Country first.

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.

The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn't.

Birtherism is a fringe issue that's way out of the mainstream, and it's disturbing when you see people you... have some level of respect for, whether it's members of Congress or even Donald Trump, falling into that category.

For there to be new growth of a conservative movement, of a right center party, the one that I joined in 1988, it needs to burn to the ground.

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.'