Political Pundits

Well, I think one of the lessons is that you have to think big.

I would also say that George Bush Jr.'s war in Iraq was a lot nobler than the one his father fought in Iraq.

I don't think we'll ever let George Bush live down lying to us to get us into this war or handling it in such an incompetent way.

The only purpose of the Central Intelligence Agency is to gather intelligence for the president. That's its job.

I will say it's not so clear to me, however, that waiting until after the election was the best political move.

She really is. So I'm not exactly sure what that would say. Probably that he wants, you know, maybe more direct control of the Department of Defense.

I personally never quite understood why we allowed, for instance, the killings of those four Blackwater contractors in April to go essentially unavenged, or maybe not unavenged, but I think we ought to have cleaned out Fallujah a lot…

But the fact is, a vast majority of reporters are liberal, particularly on social issues.

I know virtually no journalists who voted for Bush. That's just a fact.

A lot of Americans just agree with Bush's position on things.

Well, yes. I mean, I think he -- look, you know, Iraq's not doing well, and Kerry's, you know, followers don't like the president at all.

I just think he has a profound advantage because of the intensity of his followers.

All the energy is on the left, though. I mean, people who hate Bush, hate him more than people who love him, love him.

President Bush, I got to give him that much. He brings out people, because hate is a terrible thing to waste.

I would have to say that the Republicans are better at running a campaign. I don't think they're better at governing.

What you really have to fear is the environmental devastation this president has wrought. That is really what is going to probably kill you in the end.

I actually think Ralph Nader is going to help John Kerry, because I think so many people are so afraid that Ralph Nader is going to tip this election that it will energize more people that are going to vote for Ralph Nader who wouldn't…

I think a lot of people who are so scared that this election is going to go the wrong way and Ralph Nader's going to tip it, I think he may actually be having more people come out than if he wasn't running.

You know if the situation were reversed and the Republicans were running against President Al Gore, this whole election would be about 9/11 happened on your watch, I don't want to hear about any excuses, this was your problem.

It's not an anti-black strategy. I'm serious, I'm not defending it, I'm just saying that's what politics is.

I think it's a completely valid concern. I think it's fair to run on national security as an issue.

Dick Cheney has warned some crowd about a nuclear terrorist strike in U.S. cities -- in U.S. cities, saying that you've got to get your mind around the concept.

Bush, however, I do think, needs to seem pulled together, in command.

Kerry does struggle with pomposity. I mean, everyone, his friends say that.