Top 35 Chuck Todd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Media bias is one thing. Rejection of reality is another.”

— Chuck Todd

2. “Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.”

— Chuck Todd

3. “Nobody likes to feel like they’re on the losing side of anything.”

— Chuck Todd

4. “There’s nothing like music to teach you that eventually if you work hard enough, it does get better. You see the results.”

— Chuck Todd

5. “I don’t get debate agains guns at all. Because we have it after every mass shooting. And now a terror attack. And the proposals that are talked about almost always have nothing to do with this specific event.”

— Chuck Todd

6. “We’re in a political depression – a great political depression.”

— Chuck Todd

7. “America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are.”

— Chuck Todd

8. “I’ve had my own anecdotals with old friends, here’s a gentleman quoted in the Times about, “I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn’t have to but at this point I don’t feel like I have a choice.””

— Chuck Todd

9. “There’s no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something’s a story because Drudge links to it.”

— Chuck Todd

10. “Democrats will say the money they give to Planned Parenthood does not go to abortions. That the money they give to Planned Parenthood only goes to other women’s health issues, including mammograms and things like that.”

— Chuck Todd

11. “In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.”

— Chuck Todd

12. “It seems to me that this debate, whether Islam is a religion of peace or not, really, it’s irrelevant for outsiders. It’s for Muslims to decide whether it’s a religion of peace or not.”

— Chuck Todd

13. “You can’t say Hillary Clinton is not evolving as a candidate. And boy is she trying very hard to move to where the Democratic base is.”

— Chuck Todd

14. “I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.”

— Chuck Todd

15. “Hillary Clinton met with a lot of the mothers in Chicago, she has the endorsement of some of the moms. Bernie Sanders I think has one or two of the family members too. I’m a little uncomfortable with using the families of these dead children this way.”

— Chuck Todd

16. “From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.”

— Chuck Todd

17. “It’s funny how the history of Jeb Bush is going to be rewritten.”

— Chuck Todd

18. “It’s hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.”

— Chuck Todd

19. “California has rules against assault weapons. It’s just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.”

— Chuck Todd

20. “I would say that ISIS wants us to think so. And I think that’s the real danger here. It’s that what ISIS wants the narrative to be is that they are the true Muslims.”

— Chuck Todd

21. “The question I have heard from some Democrats saying that “You know what? Push for gun control, but not now.””

— Chuck Todd

22. “More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would’ve had a gun, thought about, and now is thinking about it.”

— Chuck Todd

23. “The fastest growing political party is no party.”

— Chuck Todd

24. “The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he’s at a high point right now.”

— Chuck Todd

25. “The idea now that we’re going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.”

— Chuck Todd

26. “Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt – but most think its bipartisan.”

— Chuck Todd

27. “I’m wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.”

— Chuck Todd

28. “No Republican has ever won South Carolina and Iowa or New Hampshire, as Trump has, without going on to win the nomination.”

— Chuck Todd

29. “Donald Trump does not stick to Republican orthodoxy, which, you know, and this is always supposed to have been his downfall. Maybe it’s his strength.”

— Chuck Todd

30. “We know broadly from research is that religiosity does not correlate with sympathy for terrorism. It’s actually quite the opposite. The more religious someone is, the more often they go to the mosque, the more likely they are to actually reject attacks on civilians.”

— Chuck Todd

31. “Does the terror threat we’re facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.”

— Chuck Todd

32. “A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, “Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?””

— Chuck Todd

33. “At the moment, the extremists have significant financial popular and theological backing in the Middle East. And that is an enduring phenomenon. And it’s one that is going to require a long, ideological war to win.”

— Chuck Todd

34. “If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.”

— Chuck Todd

35. “Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.”

— Chuck Todd

36. “Jeb Bush is the new John Connelly.”

— Chuck Todd

37. “Meanwhile, the Bush dynasty comes to an official end.”

— Chuck Todd