Elections & Campaigning
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- This is new territory. There really isn't any precedent. You think Seattle has a pretty liberal electorate, but you haven't seen someone who calls themselves a socialist win.
- I'm optimistic Terry McAuliffe will be a pro-business governor.
- Today Obama was in so much trouble he called Hillary Clinton and he said, 'Could you start early?
- Republicans have a problem. If they don’t pass immigration reform, they can say ‘adios’ to the White House in 2016.
- Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.
- Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.
- [President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.
- [Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with ‘the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.’ Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.
- Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.
- All political movements are like this: we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
- You can’t build a base for a candidacy in a year, or two years, or even four years. The only way to get candidates worth having is to build the social force that will create candidates worth having.
- I think Hillary Clinton has juggled so many jobs in her life that adding grandmother to her bio would not deter her from running.