This is a situation in which the vice president by definition is a shadow, ... He must move the way the president moves, he can't move independently and at this point he should move forcefully. |
This is a stunning event, |
This is not a full-fledged mea culpa. But by presidential standards, it's there, or pretty close to it, |
This is not a full-fledged mea culpa. But by presidential standards, it's there, or pretty close to it, ... The government did screw up, and he is president of the United States. |
This is not a great shake-up. This is not the beginning of a great exodus. This is probably one person who stayed too long. |
This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment. |
This White House's problems are not personnel, they are basically problems of policy. |
This year totally revolves around Iraq. |
Those that are elected on Tuesday, we're likely to have as presidential candidates six and 10 years from now. |
Ultimately, ... you have to stand for something. |
Very early on, she will work out her sound bite, and that will be her sound bite. And she will not deviate from that, so after a while, that will lose its sting. |
Washington is getting more and more of a reputation of being a pretty hard-knuckled place to operate, where you could end up leaving potentially tarnished by the experience. |
We need to know how bad it is — but we want a little good news, too. We've heard a lot about how bad Americans are, or some Americans were in Katrina, but we're not a bad people. |
We're getting some conservatives letting off steam at the moment, |
We're talking on a week in which a woman president was inaugurated in Africa and a woman was elected in Latin America, so this is not any longer so unique. |