The Project Quotes

“The fourth prong of Project 2025, a playbook for the first six months of the administration, was never made public, but Vought hinted at its content in a 2024 speech: “We have detailed agency plans,” he said. “We are writing the actual executive orders. We are writing the actual regulations now, and we are sorting out the legal authorities for all of what President Trump is running”
― David A. Graham, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

“The plan’s theory is that building systems and staffing the rank and file of the executive branch are the keys to effectively wresting control of the government. An analysis by Bloomberg Government found that thirty-seven of forty-seven executive actions taken in Trump’s first few days back in office directly or partially matched recommendations in Project 2025.”
― David A. Graham, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

“One central tenet of the project is that the only way to reverse perilous politicization of the executive branch is to further politicize it—that, as the infamous Vietnam War quip put it, we have to destroy the village in order to save it.”
― David A. Graham, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

“Project 2025 is a scheme to massively expand the power of the president. The principals involved want Trump to be able to stock the executive branch with political appointees; to fire civil servants at will; to discard the historical impartiality of the Justice Department; to attack the statutory independence of agencies like the Federal Communications Commission; and to seize powers of the Congress for the president.”
― David A. Graham, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

“Roberts, the president of Heritage, writes that Project 2025 has four goals: “Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children; Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people; Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats; [and] Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls ‘the Blessings of Liberty.’ ”
― David A. Graham, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America

“Working under the auspices of the Heritage Foundation, a fifty-year-old conservative think tank, they designed a four-pronged plan that included a detailed policy platform, a huge database of potential administration hires, training courses for aspiring staffers, and a playbook for a blitzkrieg takeover of the government on Day One. They named it Project 2025.”
― David A. Graham, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America