"That's a darn good question, Erica and pretty soon they're going to have to have some standards or principles by which to judge this."
"This is -- I still continue to think this is a great ado about very little."
"That's what comes with being -- you know, when people begin to think, you're Obama, you can change everything, that's what he's got to worry about."
"Charisma was a great asset for both John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan in their governing both here and abroad. But it can raise expectations."
"When an outsider can so easily penetrate his privacy, how easy is it going to be an outsider to penetrate his security?"
"That raises a lot of security questions in my mind."
"That's what comes with being, you know, when people begin to think you're Obama, you could change everything."
"I think that's the question raised in part by these photographs."
"That's exactly -- when he -- when he starts walking -- if he gets out of his car on Pennsylvania Avenue on inaugural day, and just starts walking along, and they haven't taken huge precautions, just t..."
"To be fair, a lot of these bonuses were in 2007 before everything hit the fan. But even so, they have been living at the trough and -- for so heavily so long that that's what's caused this huge negati..."
"I think for most of the country, this Rick Warren issue is fading. In the gay and lesbian community, there's no question it has left a deep wound."
"It's not just because it's right. It's the right thing to do."
"Well, I think first of all, there's a lot of responsibility that rests with Washington and passing a plan that really did not have these accountability provisions in it."
"Not unless he wanted to go home as Herbert Hoover on Christmas Eve, he had no choice."
"If you look at the totality of what he now faces, he's got to make decisions for about -- over a trillion dollars in new government spending and commitments in the next 90 days."
"It does build confidence across the board. And look, he's got these huge problems ahead, but he also has the support now of about 70 percent more of the public who really want to see him do well."
"If he's going to break through this polarization that we had now that has plagued both the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, he's got to try some things that are different."
"I think we should give this poor man a chance to try something new, to reach out across divides, to see if he can't find common ground among people who may disagree on some issues, but agree on others..."
