He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough. |
He's got to show these right-wingers that he's got backbone. |
He's kind of like a boxer. He's ready to get back in the ring. |
I know you hate to hear me. But you have to. |
I ran races a long time ago. I won't be going for time. My philosophy is to start slow and taper. |
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president. |
I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody. |
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one. |
I will not be intimidated by Ken Starr, I will not be intimidated by Newt Gingrich and I will not be intimidated by House Democratic staffers who don't know any better when I do things that are designed to get Democrats to vote, |
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That's why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd. Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don't have a clue as to political reality. What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want. The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans. Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to. |
if the coming word in American politics was neo-isolationism. Somebody in one of these parties is going to run on this platform. |
If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress. |
It makes sense, because if he appears with Gore, it just sucks all the air out of everything; it's all people want to talk about. . . . Gore is in a tight, tight, tight race, and he's got to make his case himself. |
It was kind of like having a dream: You're riding a wagon down a hill and all of a sudden you're in a swimming pool, asking, 'How'd I get here?' |
It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Republican governor, Democratic Legislature. Romney is an ascendant guy. |