A caricature has taken hold in the public imagination: Republicans seemingly in the pockets of corporate fat cats who rub their hands together and chuckle manically as they plot to pollute corporate America for fun and profit. |
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. |
As angry and pissed off as we were in 1994 about politics, I think it's worse today. This House of Representatives' Republican majority is in jeopardy. |
Democrats don't want to hear about your church. If they really cared, they'd be Republicans. |
Do you see anybody standing up saying this is an amazing person? ... Do you see anybody juiced? |
EPA had been studying the arsenic issue for several years, and recommended using the World Health Organization's 10 part per billion standard. As the 2001 deadline loomed, President Clinton lowered the standard to 10 parts per billion, one-fifth of the previous standard. |
Giuliani and Pataki are winners in a Democratic state, and that gives them electoral credibility. If they say this is the candidate, other Republicans will fall into line. |
His greatest difficulty is with the GOP elites. They don't find him loyal. ... But he does well with rank and file. |
How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say. |
I am amazed at how eager the CEOs of the biggest companies are today to communicate as effectively as possible, to employ the skills and the language. |
I believe that there are things worth explaining and educating, even if it takes months or years. |
I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. |
I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history. |
I see immigration as being the welfare reform of this decade. |
I was fortunate enough to have been invited to do a presentation about how the American people didn't trust politicians in general and, quite frankly, didn't trust Republicans in particular. |