 Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. |
| There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide. |
| Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist. |
| The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha? |
| We have work to do, and Tuesday Americans sent Washington a clear message - get the job done. |
| A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel. |
| When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set. |
| What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? |
| I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed. |
| Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best. |
| I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important. |
| When people told me 'It's great to be here', they meant at the house, not with me. |
| I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything. |
| As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord. |
| I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies. |
| We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. |
| You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before. |
| The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform. |
| They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group. |
| I wake up some mornings hating me too. |
