[Only 12 percent of the electorate voted in 2003, and 7 percent in 2001.] No doubt this will be passed, ... the question is how it will pass. |
Any time you have a hazard on the roadway and motorist coming up to the hazard, it can cause problems, |
He is fighting against something that is very hard to fight against, which is the tide of public opinion. It is possible, come December, he could be in a tight race. |
He´s in trouble, ... He needs to shore up his base now. |
He'll want a president who won't tax the Internet or regulate it, and who will open global markets. Those are the three things he cares a lot about -- a government that's hands-off business. |
He's been working hard, but is under the radar screen and avoiding big media events. His campaign people are making very targeted invitations to likely primary Republican voters. |
He's in trouble. He needs to shore up his base now. |
He's just a very practical, pragmatic business person, |
He's running like a freshman. |
His best campaign is what he's doing, ... The election is almost immaterial at this point. It's anticlimactic. |
I don't see how the city or county could have said no, ... Anything looking like we were going to resist would have been the wrong reaction and politically costly. |
I think it's great if they do it. It's always a lot of talk. What gets done is something else. |
I was so excited that I stopped at a pay phone to call the other guys at their work. By the end of the day I had written the other verses, one about sex and one about drugs. I remember that I had a hell of a time singing it and getting the spelling of vitamins right! |
Is Campbell a threat to DeLay? I find it hard to believe Mr. Campbell is going to win a primary against DeLay. But he doesn't have to win to do damage to DeLay. DeLay needs to win with a substantial number of votes, so he can demonstrate that he is the standard-bearer for his party. |
It wasn't just that Tom DeLay made politics more partisan. He made it more personal. He made it impossible for Texas to be what it always has been – a state that goes along to get along. You became either our friend or our enemy. |