Jennifer Payne

“Knowing ahead of time that you’re going to be bailed out if you fail renders the narrative leading up to that moment meaningless.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“Though Donald’s fundamental nature hasn’t changed, since his inauguration the amount of stress he’s under has changed dramatically. It’s not the stress of the job, because he isn’t doing the job—unless watching TV and tweeting insults count. It’s the effort to keep the rest of us distracted from the fact that he knows nothing—about politics, civics, or simple human decency—that requires an enormous amount of”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“would later be drawn to authoritarians such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un or anyone else, really, with a willingness to flatter and the power to enrich him.”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“was simpler for Rob and Maryanne to toe the party line in the hope that they wouldn’t get treated any worse, which seems to be the same calculation Republicans in Congress make every day now. They”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man