Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Paul Manafort

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American businessman Paul Manafort.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Paul Manafort

Paul John Manafort Jr. is an American lobbyist, political consultant, attorney and convicted fraudster. A long-time Republican Party campaign consultant, he chaired the Trump presidential campaign from June to August 2016. Manafort served as an adviser to the U.S. presidential campaigns of Republicans Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bob Dole. In 1980, he co-founded the Washington, D.C.–based lobbying firm Black, Manafort & Stone, along with principals Charles R. Black Jr., and Roger J. Stone, joined by Peter G. Kelly in 1984. Manafort often lobbied on behalf of foreign leaders such as former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, former dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos, former dictator of Zaire Mobutu Sese Seko, and Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi. Lobbying to serve the interests of foreign governments requires registration with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA); on June 27, 2017, he retroactively registered as a foreign agent.

Donald Trump is talking about the failed leadership of the Obama Administration.
I'm not a lobbyist.
Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism. — © Paul Manafort
Those are the two issues: Protecting the homeland and stopping the war and going after ISIS in a way that ends the terrorism.
The rise of ISIS is a result of - Obama and Clinton making a decision to pull our troops out without preparing Iraq is a colossal mistake.
I have run campaigns. That doesn't make you the establishment.
I don't think this election is about Hillary Clinton. This election is about Donald Trump.
The point is the country has got serious problems dealing with terrorism both domestic and international.
The issue that Mr. Trump is talking about and which, really, frankly, I expect the media should be talking about is protecting the American homeland from national security risks and terrorists.
If there's anyone who's against Wall Street, it's Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, who basically lives off of the funding from Wall Street.
As I've said many times, Yanukovych was a pro-Western, not pro-Putin, president.
By the way, in Mrs. Clinton's returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.
Mr. Trump of course feels sorry for what the Khan family has gone through, just, frankly, as he felt sorry for the victims that spoke before the Republican Convention who lost loved ones from illegal immigrant criminals coming in and being able to travel the country freely.
I was about 15, 16 years old when my father first ran for mayor, and that's where I cut my teeth. — © Paul Manafort
I was about 15, 16 years old when my father first ran for mayor, and that's where I cut my teeth.
Donald Trump is running this campaign. And I'm working directly for Donald Trump.
Pence is a fan of fundraising and does enjoy doing it.
The reality is, Ted Cruz has seen his best day.
Like my father, Trump also understands working-class Americans.
I've never dealt with the Russian government, I've never had a relationship with the Russian government.
I'm always careful what clients I take.
There are some Senate candidates who aren't sure Trump is in their interest yet, but they'll come along.
The conversation we should be having is, what does Russia have from Hillary Clinton's server?
Obviously, people feeling that their government is responsive to them is in the best interest of the United States. It's in the best interest of the U.K., it's in the best interest of countries all over the world.
Many women feel they can't afford their lives; their husbands can't afford to be paying for the family bills. Hillary Clinton is guilty of being part of the establishment that created that problem.
Benghazi was a tragedy. Libya is a tragedy.
You don't change Donald Trump. You don't 'manage' him.
I have never received a single 'off-the-books cash payment' as falsely 'reported' by 'The New York Times,' nor have I never done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia.
Trump is very plugged in. He's very connected.
Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense, but now, as the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place.
The national polls are distorted. To get a national sample, they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are but also where most of the radical Hispanics are.
The promises that globalism is the solution, the promise that government's going to make your life better if you just give up your freedoms, the promises that we know better than you on how to make your lives better, have been rejected.
It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.
Trump is an outsider; maybe you don't know. So he is sitting in a room: he is talking business, he is talking politics - in a private room, it's a different persona. When he's out on the stage, he is talking about the kinds of things he's talking about himself; he's projecting an image that's for that purpose.
The role that I played in Ukraine ended up resulting in Ukraine becoming part of the European community.
I have one client: Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was not asked by the leadership to change. And there's no reason for him to change. He's just won the primary process with a record number of votes, beating a field of 16 qualified candidates. So, there's no reason for Donald Trump to change.
As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.
Mr. Trump's position has been clear from the beginning: He's under audit. When the audit is completed, he'll release his returns.
Reince Priebus is a strong supporter of Donald Trump and a good friend and supporter of Paul Ryan. — © Paul Manafort
Reince Priebus is a strong supporter of Donald Trump and a good friend and supporter of Paul Ryan.
Brexit is really a good forerunner of what's going to happen here in November, I think. The same angst that drove that vote is driving the American election.
Once again, the 'New York Times' has chosen to purposefully ignore facts and professional journalism to fit their political agenda, choosing to attack my character and reputation rather than present an honest report. The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly, and nonsensical.
We're here really to let them know that we're going to run a traditional campaign with them. And when we're the nominee of the Republican Party, you know, it's going to be a Trump brand of the party, but we are Republicans. We're running as team.
What happened with Brexit was people taking back control.
Trump's negatives are negatives that deal with his personality. People don't know yet what to make of him.
My work in Ukraine ceased following the country's parliamentary elections in October 2014.
Of course he's going to work with Paul Ryan; of course he's tried to bridge the party together with Paul Ryan, but Ryan is also running against somebody who's not going to win but nonetheless is a strong supporter of Mr. Trump's.
Donald Trump figured out that the campaign for a moderate presidency is different than it's been in the past. He didn't put together a traditional campaign.
As far as the Yanukovych administration is concerned, you will see, if you do any fact-checking, that I was the person that negotiated the framework which is based upon which Ukraine is now a part of Europe. That was my role. That's what I did. And when it was completed, I left.
We've noted that the Clinton camp was the first to get it out there, trying to say there was something untoward about the speech Melania Trump gave. It's just another example, as far as we're concerned, that when Hillary Clinton is threatened by a female, the first thing she does is try to destroy the person.
Where there is terrorist activity - Syria or Iraq - we will temporarily suspend immigration until we can establish a vetting system in which we can identify who people are who are coming in.
The 'Never Trump' movement was never going anywhere. — © Paul Manafort
The 'Never Trump' movement was never going anywhere.
The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership.
Trump is in the position to be the next president of the United States, given the mood in America today.
Leadership is failing. And Donald Trump is going to take a holistic approach to how we focus on these things, and he's not going to allow disparate activities in the communities to define everything.
You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.
Donald Trump's whole candidacy from the time he started has been filled with myths by the media that he couldn't - he was not a serious candidate.
You can't change somebody's character, but you can change the way a person presents themselves.
Please, let's talk to American families and sit around the dinner table at night figuring how to pay their bills.
Donald Trump understands media. He's a television star. And he's connected with America.
What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.
Trump is not a fan of fundraising, but he's willing to do it.
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